Fate vs. Election in Shakespearean Drama: The Example of ‘Coriolanus’.
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 med...
| Publicado en: | Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 3 - 37 |
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