Free Will in Hamlet?
I argue that the Shakespeare of Hamlet was influenced by the debate between Erasmus and Luther on the question of free will. I approach this debate as a record of the tensions within Christian humanism and as a conceptual source text for Hamlet. I detect the debate's resonances in the play...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
[2018]
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2018, Volume: 67, Issue: 2, Pages: 253-270 |
IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance NBE Anthropology |
Further subjects: | B
ERASMUS, Desiderius, d. 1536
B Shakespeare B Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 B Luther B Humanism B Luther, Martin, 1483-1546 B Erasmus B HAMLET (Play : Shakespeare) |
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