RT Article
T1 The Tempest and Black Natural Law
JF Religions
VO 10
IS 2
SP 1
OP 15
A1 Lupton, Julia Reinhard 1963-
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1671269411
AB Vincent Lloyd's 2016 book Black Natural Law presents four case histories in which African American intellectuals used the natural law tradition to mount defenses of the rights, capacities, and dignity of members of their communities. This essay uses the discourse of black natural law as reconstructed by Lloyd to reread Caliban's political arguments and social and aesthetic project in The Tempest. Although the natural law tradition became increasingly secularized during the century of revolution, black thinkers such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King, Jr. drew on the religious renditions of natural law that were alive in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Reading Shakespeare with black natural law is not simply an audacious leap into our troubled present, but also brings new focus on the forms of scripturally-inspired pluralism that natural law theory supported in Shakespeare's age.
K1 James Cone
K1 Richard Hooker
K1 The Tempest
K1 Thomas Aquinas
K1 Vincent Lloyd
K1 Black Theology
K1 Natural Law
DO 10.3390/rel10020091