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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... marriage was isolated as the only mode of chaste living , the more a man's life hinged on the decisions of the woman in entering the marriage and in behaving herself once married . In this way , the cold virgin could become another ...
... marriage was isolated as the only mode of chaste living , the more a man's life hinged on the decisions of the woman in entering the marriage and in behaving herself once married . In this way , the cold virgin could become another ...
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... marriage to Ophelia , for the Queen could advise and endorse as well as encourage him . And we can even imagine that ... marriage ; because of Gertrude's unthinking readiness to replace a lost mate with another , her son is cut off from ...
... marriage to Ophelia , for the Queen could advise and endorse as well as encourage him . And we can even imagine that ... marriage ; because of Gertrude's unthinking readiness to replace a lost mate with another , her son is cut off from ...
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Not to be John E. Curran. marriage ? Or resolve to be astute within marriage , anticipating a flawed partner and preparing either to accept her imperfections or seek comfort away from her ? Or why not eschew marriage , choosing instead ...
Not to be John E. Curran. marriage ? Or resolve to be astute within marriage , anticipating a flawed partner and preparing either to accept her imperfections or seek comfort away from her ? Or why not eschew marriage , choosing instead ...
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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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