Macbeth and Protestant Predestination

Gleckman, Jason

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Reformation

2013

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Macbeth and Protestant Predestination

Jason Gleckman

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“…For the application of this view to Macbeth, finding it anomalously deterministic and pessimistic for Shakespeare, see (Stachniewski 1988). For a more recent discussion of Macbeth's terror at a Protestant universe, see (Gleckman 2013). 8 For Stoll, the Protestant concept of conscience, in contrast to the Thomist one, is alogical; see (Stoll 2017, pp.…”

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That Suggestion: Catholic Casuistry, Complexity, and Macbeth

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In a keeping with the view that Shakespeare harbored a sympathetic attitude to Catholic ways of seeing, this essay argues that Macbeth is a study in the dangers of oversimplification and certainty. In contradistinction to how Spenser’s Redcrosse Knight escapes the Cave of Despaire, Macbeth would benefit greatly from probing, questioning, nuancing, and sifting through ambiguity. He needs to examine the particular attenuation of his own moral thinking, and needs to engage equivocation, in the forms of both amphibology and mental reservation.

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Macbeth and Protestant Predestination

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That Suggestion: Catholic Casuistry, Complexity, and Macbeth

That Suggestion: Catholic Casuistry, Complexity, and Macbeth

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