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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... vices and ways of assessing them . But a second way the general censure can err is by censuring someone on the basis of “ some complexion , / Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason ” ( I.iv.27–28 ) . This means that what may ...
... vices and ways of assessing them . But a second way the general censure can err is by censuring someone on the basis of “ some complexion , / Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason ” ( I.iv.27–28 ) . This means that what may ...
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... vices and virtues , venial and mortal sins , rewards and punishments , and degrees , rules , and exceptions to rules , gave the individual the reassurance of a closed , fixed system of authority ; and yet by emphasizing the individual's ...
... vices and virtues , venial and mortal sins , rewards and punishments , and degrees , rules , and exceptions to rules , gave the individual the reassurance of a closed , fixed system of authority ; and yet by emphasizing the individual's ...
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... vices and virtues at all , but about Horestes going through a process he was bound to go through . Revenge at the ... Vice into a mere amoral harbinger of a fixed future ; despite appearances , Revenge has nothing to say except that what ...
... vices and virtues at all , but about Horestes going through a process he was bound to go through . Revenge at the ... Vice into a mere amoral harbinger of a fixed future ; despite appearances , Revenge has nothing to say except that what ...
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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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