RT Article
T1 Fate vs. Election in Shakespearean Drama: The Example of 'Coriolanus'
JF Anthropoetics
VO 29
IS 2
A1 Goldman, Peter
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1942937296
AB In Shakespeare’s tragedies, the protagonist is typically called to a new role in the world of the play, as when Hamlet is called to be a revenger by the appearance of his father’s ghost. Such moments of calling are the legacy of the Judeo-Christian tradition of election as found in the Bible and medieval literature, although it finds secular expression in Shakespearean drama. Election functions in many of the same ways as tragic fate, responding to a disorder in nature and leading to the protagonist’s downfall. Election, however, also includes certain purely human elements that can work against tragic pathos, as we find in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus.
K1 Shakespeare
K1 Coriolanus
K1 Fate
K1 Election
K1 Tragedy
K1 Catharsis
K1 Bible
K1 Ritual
K1 Eric Gans