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predestination
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Arnold's gloomy predestinarian ontology misses the fact that the franchise was thus a consequential, hot-button issue throughout Shakespeare's life, if more so at local than at parliamentary level.
The Third Citizen: Shakespeare's Theater and the Early Modern House ... by Fitter, Chris / Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
But scenes of hell in the play are associated not only with basic predestinarian questions of agency--of who does what--but also with questions of sufficiency, of what or how much is required from whom.
"The verie paines of hell": Doctor Faustus and the controversy over ... by Hirschfeld, Heather Anne / Shakespeare Studies
Early on, however, he states his conviction "that certain aspects of Catholic doctrine were sufficiently attractive to Shakespeare that he felt their loss, and that he was unsympathetic toward the conclusions about God and humanity to which predestinarian Protestantism necessarily leads us" (5).
Hamlet, Protestantism and the Mourning of Contingency: Not to Be by Taylor, Mark / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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