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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... predestination and justification by faith, our culture seems vexed andperplexed by anequally doctrinal Oedipus complex. Ernst Jones' Hamlet and Oedipus argues that what is buriedin Shakespeare's play, inplain sight, is an exploded ...
... Predestination addresses soulsearching toentirely different questions, more akinto an examination ofone's chances or spiritual horoscope.It is the stars' influence, surely, whereby young Hamlet was bornon the day old Hamlet defeated old ...
... predestination anddiselection that haunt the necessitarian “this” in Claudius' nearly inaugural utterance, “this mustbeso,”and that bedevil the implicit,fatal “it”in Hamlet's nearly valedictory one, “Let be.” Curran's Prince hasamind ...
... predestination in English theology.”12 But whileShakespeare thuswrote Hamletatatime whenEnglish Protestantism was saturatedwith predestinarian Calvinism, with the divines ofthe Church of England largely in consensus about it, there is ...
... illuminated the Church'sThirty Nine Articles by bluntly negating the notionof God workingin cooperation with humans: “Predestination isnotconditionall, but certaine.”20 For Protestants, Catholicideasof contingency inthe.
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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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