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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... what sacraments confer in our extremity.In the Moralities (Everyman, Castle of Perseverance), Confession saves. Hamlet, perforce, like Faustus, confesses Confession's failure. Faustus recalls themedieval Adam who signeda contractwith ...
... what's owedGodor Nature. Hamlet, however, doesn't seemto feel there's something towards thatwill endhis life inone waybetter than another. Everylife is acomplete life, albeit a sparrow's; otherwise, Hamlet fatalistically concludes,it ...
... what he thinks is expected of him: “Hisown individual selfis stuntedthrough hisbeing forcedto conform with his parents' expectations. Heloses ... thecapacity for initiative ofhisown.” A lessauthoritarian or more loving father than ...
... what itreally means. My attempt inthis study ata freshlook atHamlet, then,involves not onlyoutlining in thisway thePrince's religious situation, but also detailing how these particular religiousmatters comeintoview. Wewill seehow the ...
... what might bethe limits of our capacity to understand? Those limits being unknown, andit being undefined howfar anyone ofus might press toward them, our apprehension if notGod's becomesgodlike. Such isthegist of the famous ...
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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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