Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Publication Date
10-16-2018
Publisher
MDPI
Source Publication
Religions
Source ISSN
2077-1444
Abstract
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.
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Recommended Citation
Curran, John E. Jr., "That Suggestion: Catholic Casuistry, Complexity, and Macbeth" (2018). English Faculty Research and Publications. 507.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/english_fac/507
Comments
Published version. Religions, Vol. 9, No. 10 (2018): 315. DOI. © 2018 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).