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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... reformation imposedon Hamlet's reluctant protagonist—overtaken byhis mysterious, autopathic malaise— compoundswith therewritingproject undertaken byhisauthor. Is this why—contra Polonius—Hamlet must be performatively false to beinwardly ...
... reformation. Damnedif you trust salvation by works and the sacramental order, damnedif you don'ttrust God's providence. Damnedifyou insist you're saved, damned ifyou can'tfindin yourself signsof regeneration. Damnedif you believe in ...
... only the poet buthisreader whois subjecttothe obligation to 'make it new'” (Frye 346). We mustunbury Hamlet's theological dead. For thedrama behind Hamlet'sarras ispsychological becauseit is theological: givena Renaissance/Reformation.
... Reformation sensibility, itcould hardly beotherwise. Bacon famously reported England's Queen not wishing“to make windowsinto men'sheartsand secret thoughts, exceptthe abundanceof themdid overflow intoovert expressacts and affirmations ...
... Reformation historians.CharlesV attendedtheDietof Worms toheara convocation on Churchabuses, especially regarding thedoctrine ofthesacrament. The mockingof transubstantiation intheReformers' diatribe anticipatesjests about the ...
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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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