RT Article
T1 That Suggestion: Catholic Casuistry, Complexity, and Macbeth
JF Religions
VO 9
IS 10
SP 1
OP 17
A1 Curran, John E. 1968-
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1587215780
AB 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.
K1 Catholicism
K1 Macbeth
K1 Protestantism
K1 Casuistry
K1 Conscience
K1 Equivocation
DO 10.3390/rel9100315