Shakespeare and Protestant poetics / by Gleckman, Jason

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Predestination, single and double in Christian history -- The Reformation and the revival of double predestination thought -- Double predestination in early English drama -- Double predestination in Shakespearean comedy and tragedy: The merry wives of Windsor and Macbeth -- Double predestination and assurance in Shakespear: Macbeth and Twelfth night -- Conversion in Protestant and Catholic thought in the Reformation -- The Protestant conversion into marraige -- The Shakespearean conversion paradigm: Much ado about nothing -- English Protestant conversion in A midsummer night's dream -- Apostasy in The winter's tale -- The three components of free will in Plato and Aristotle: Thumos, reason, and deliberative reason -- The free will in Augustine, the Middle Ages, and the Reformation -- Free will and free conscience in Hamlet -- Hamlet and the free will in action -- The player's speech.…”