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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kasa, Deni

Titel

“Not so much perdition as an hair”: The Political Deployment of Christian Patience in The Tempest

Ist Teil von

• Renaissance and Reformation, 2020-01, Vol.43 (1), p.135-159

Ort / Verlag

Iter Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Quelle

Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Early modern theology and martyrology understood patience as a transformation of one’s perspective on suffering, so that pain and humiliation came to be seen by the sufferer as honourable and even desirable. This article suggests that The Tempest explores the political implications of Christian patience when the concept is translated to the secular spheres of courtship and politics. Miranda and Ferdinand find a sense of agency through Christian patience, leading to the fulfillment of Prospero’s political goals and the dynastic union that concludes the play. However, the repressive side of Christian patience is also revealed through the play’s exclusion of Caliban.