Hamlet, Protestantism, and the Mourning of Contingency: Not to BeAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 28/04/2013 - 278 páginas Building on current scholarly interest in the religious dimensions of the play, this study shows how Shakespeare uses Hamlet to comment on the Calvinistic Protestantism predominant around 1600. By considering the play's inner workings against the religious ideas of its time, John Curran explores how Shakespeare portrays in this work a completely deterministic universe in the Calvinist mode, and, Curran argues, exposes the disturbing aspects of Calvinism. By rendering a Catholic Prince Hamlet caught in a Protestant world which consistently denies him his aspirations for a noble life, Shakespeare is able in this play, his most theologically engaged, to delineate the differences between the two belief systems, but also to demonstrate the consequences of replacing the old religion so completely with the new. |
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... Claudius is a “displacement”of the elder Hamlet himself. “To double business bound,” Hamlet fils avoids provoking agood father while repelling abad fatherfigure; he's summoned to appease theone byeliminating the other.A problem with ...
... Claudius— convinced he's unforgivable—and Hamlet, unsure if Claudius's contrition can be authentic. “A truly contrite sinner seeks out,and lovesto pay,the penalties ofhis sins”(Theses 40). Butdoes old Hamlet, or.
... Claudius indicts the Church's racket regarding illgotten goods, “offering ... attractive termsof composition, under which, by the payment ofa trifling portionof theillicit gains, [the sinner] was assured ... he could retainthe rest with ...
... Claudius shouldtake courage,but despair ruins everything, especially faithin God's pardoning power. Claudius prays without faith: damnably (Luther,1539, Leipzig Sermon).Matthew 4:17doesn't say Act or Do Penance—as in the Vulgate—but ...
... Claudius' Denmark. Elizabethans worry about destinies controlledby unfortunate ormalign stars and a large inheritance oforiginal sin. Wefear behavior controlled by unconscious reactions, ordestinies controlledby badgenes—because ...
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TheLoss of Contingency 2TheBe the Eucharist and the Logic of Protestantism | |
4The Theater of Merit 5 Chastity andthe Strumpet Fortune 6 The BeProtestantism and Silence | |
Index | |
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