Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - JOUR VL - 18 IS - no. 1 T2 - Reformation SP - 48-65 ID - bbbc1535 T1 - "Macbeth and Protestant Predestination" AU - Gleckman, Jason PY - 2013 DA - 2026 KW - Protestantism KW - Macbeth LA - English AB - Argues that, in light of the fact that there was "no noticeable distinction between the sensibilities of the reprobate and the elect" in early modern Protestant England, Macbeth's behavior in the play may be re-interpreted "as emerging from a terrified awareness, shared by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, of the Protestant world, rather than from a specifically reprobate frame of mind." English summary, 48. ER -