![]() ![]() This universe, therefore, is anything but arbitrary. ![]() For Hooker the universe is structured according to a hierarchy of laws, including the laws of reason, nature, and scripture crucially, ritual practice is embedded in these general laws and is part of the ordinary functioning of the universe. Rather than the tragedy Faustus locates in the paradoxical mixture of voluntarism and predestination, Midsummer is a comedy grounded in Hooker’s assumption of God’s rationality expressed as love and the enabling of creaturely virtue (Spinks 111-112). ![]() If Faustus dramatizes Calvinist cosmology, my first chapter treats A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a cosmology based on the theology of Richard Hooker. ![]()
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