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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... souls in Purgatory typically request— “ In all thy orisons / Be all my sins remembered , " Hamlet asks , like the last soul in Dante's Purgatory commanding sovegna vos . And yet , despite an injunction to remember , this is hardly what ...
... souls in Purgatory typically request— “ In all thy orisons / Be all my sins remembered , " Hamlet asks , like the last soul in Dante's Purgatory commanding sovegna vos . And yet , despite an injunction to remember , this is hardly what ...
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... soul went " straightways " to heaven or hell , 48 and with this sense of immediacy , this squeezing out of all in - between time , he is fairly characteristic of Protestants . Matthew Sutcliffe was blunt : " omnes statim aut absoluuntur ...
... soul went " straightways " to heaven or hell , 48 and with this sense of immediacy , this squeezing out of all in - between time , he is fairly characteristic of Protestants . Matthew Sutcliffe was blunt : " omnes statim aut absoluuntur ...
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... soul ; but the soul was always capable of triumphing , and the triumph would be all the greater given the potency of these forces . And that the soul always took part in this struggle and could win or lose it , at different degrees of ...
... soul ; but the soul was always capable of triumphing , and the triumph would be all the greater given the potency of these forces . And that the soul always took part in this struggle and could win or lose it , at different degrees of ...
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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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