Resumen de The illusory future in the Henry VIII plays of Shakespeare and Calderón
The characters of Henry VIII and La cisma de Inglaterra evoke the future in ways that subvert both their sense of destiny and orthodox religious perspectives on the English Reformation. The motif of failed pre-determinism undermines the notion of history as a redemptive process, revealing a schismatic world sundered from God. In these plays, the future interrogates the present to convey the imminence of social dissolution and the loss of unifying myths
