Hamlet, Protestantism, and the Mourning of Contingency: Not to beAshgate, 2006 - 246 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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... Ghost's meaning is tied directly to them : " Well may it sort that this portentous figure / Comes armed through our watch so like the King / That was and is the question of these wars " ( I.i.112–14 ) . The Ghost comes armed as a sign ...
... Ghost's meaning is tied directly to them : " Well may it sort that this portentous figure / Comes armed through our watch so like the King / That was and is the question of these wars " ( I.i.112–14 ) . The Ghost comes armed as a sign ...
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... ghost points to a special and at least potentially humanized revenge , just as a special and ambiguous ghost suggests a special revenge pattern that could run in any number of directions.2 But the Ghost is only distinctive if we view it ...
... ghost points to a special and at least potentially humanized revenge , just as a special and ambiguous ghost suggests a special revenge pattern that could run in any number of directions.2 But the Ghost is only distinctive if we view it ...
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... Ghost as nearly exactly what the Catholic - minded viewer of a ghost would want . Through the Ghost's words with Hamlet the play lets us see , if only briefly , with Catholic eyes . This is not to suggest that the Ghost is a ...
... Ghost as nearly exactly what the Catholic - minded viewer of a ghost would want . Through the Ghost's words with Hamlet the play lets us see , if only briefly , with Catholic eyes . This is not to suggest that the Ghost is a ...
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The Be the Eucharist and the Logic of Protestantism | 18 |
Purgatory and the Value of Time | 65 |
The Theater of Merit | 103 |
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