Shakespeare and Protestant Poetics

Introduction.- Section One&nbsp; –&nbsp; Predestination.- 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:&nbsp; The Merry Wives of Windsor and Macbeth.- Double Predestination and Assurance in Shakespeare:&nbsp; Macbeth and Twelfth Night.- Section Two – Conversion.- Conversion in Protestant and Catholic Thought in the Reformation.- The Protestant Conversion into Marriage.- The Shakespearean Conversion Paradigm:&nbsp; Much Ado About Nothing.- English Protestant Conversion in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.- Apostasy in in The Winter’s Tale.- Section Three – Free Will.- The Three Components of Free will in Plato and Aristotle:&nbsp; 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.<br><div> </div>