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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... Hamlet's problems—or Hamlet's problematic. Apparently unhaunted and undaunted by predestination and justification by faith, our culture seems vexed andperplexed by anequally doctrinal Oedipus complex. Ernst Jones' Hamlet and Oedipus ...
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... Hamlet calls the Ghost a vision, and swears by St.Patrick it'san honest ghost. But questions arose. Are merits ... Hamlet's central scene distributes thiscritique between Claudius— convinced he's unforgivable—and Hamlet, unsure if ...
... Hamlet, or Measure for Measure's Claudio? “When aman believes himself utterlylost, light breaks” (Bainton, Here I Stand63). Hamlet can't knowif Claudiusisat just this pass,the very momentof the “purging ofhis soul.” Thegreat stumbling ...
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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 | |
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