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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... truth is that my aim is nothing other than to expressmyfeelings about whatis goingon in Hamlet. I seeHamlet asaCatholicminded person trying futilelyto apply his worldview to adeterministic Protestantuniverse whichheatlast embraces, and ...
... truth: his world holds him in the tightest of boxes, and he is not going to think his out. way In thisstudy Ipropose totrace the ways Shakespeare examinesin Hamlet thisbitter truth the Prince has hit upon here withhis bad dreams ...
... truth;hence Hamlet's repeated attempts toapply theformer vision are everywhere doomed tofailure, ashe himself at times glimpses with hisbaddreams. The scene with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern closes with Hamlet's splendid encomium to ...
... truth regarding ourbeing, along with the truth thatthere exists but one truth, manifests and proves itself time andagain intheplay, as it does here, in spite of whatever might Hamlet's sentiments be or ours. In fact, this Protestant ...
... truth as well. There is no stopping or softening or altering what is to be. Butwhile Dr. Faustus does speak to the situationin Hamlet, drama of amore overtly Calvinistic strain offers perhaps more illustrative parallels. InJacob and ...
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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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