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, and moreover tothe deathof Shakespeare's father andson (Hamnet): in the section titled “Dreams of the Death of Beloved Persons.” Nosuch dreamappears inHamlet itself,“yet dreams advise,” and, properly explicated, reembody ...
... Hamletand promising tolaborwith Laertes' soul; the Ghost's acknowledgement ofhis sinfulness; Hamlet's refusal tohear Horatioembrace truancy; Claudius' promise of—and Hamlet's request for—Laertes' absolution: any speech piercing ears ...
... Hamlet and Hoffman, too,are very different characters whose differences cometo nothing, and whoprove thissametruth regardless of what theywant or tryto do. Whatever he doesor wants or tries, Esauis going to be Esau, just asJacob is ...
... Hamlet and CounterHumanism,” Renaissance Quarterly 51(1999): 1055; EricP.Levy, “TheMind ofMan in Hamlet,” Renascence 54 ... Hamletand the Ghostof Purgatory: Intimations ofKilling the Father,” EnglishLiterary Renaissance 29 (1999): 443–67 ...
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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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