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OverviewRobert G. Hunter maintains that the impact of the Protestant Reformation on the Elizabethan mind was in great part responsible for the emergence of the outstanding tragedies of the age. Luther and Calvin caused men to ask how God can be just if man is not free, and Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies confront the vexing problems posed by these altered conceptions of man’s freedom of will and God’s providential control of natural circumstance. Shakespeare’s audiences were not single-minded. He wrote for semi-Pelagians, Augustinians, Calvinists, and men and women who did not know what to think. Confl icting certainties, doubts, and uncertainties were his raw material, both within his mind and the minds of the audience. Hunter shows how Shakespeare uses the major attitudes toward God’s judgment in creating Richard III, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear. He notes that Shakespeare’s different viewpoints are the heart of the tragedies themselves. Even after Shakespeare’s imaginative considerations of the mysteries, the tragedies seem to consistently provide questions rather than answers, and what they inspire in their beholders is more likely to be doubt than faith. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert G. HunterPublisher: University of Georgia Press Imprint: University of Georgia Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780820338545ISBN 10: 0820338540 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 30 March 2011 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationROBERT G. HUNTER is the author of Shakespeare and the Comedy of Forgiveness. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |