Hamlet, Protestantism, and the Mourning of Contingency: Not to BeRoutledge, 22/04/2016 - 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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... happen in him but hardening of the heart. “We should strive with all our might, resort to the healing balm of penitence,” says Erasmus' On Free Will, “and try by all means to compass the mercy of God.” But shouldn't we know what or ...
... happen in him but hardening of the heart. “We should strive with all our might, resort to the healing balm of penitence,” says Erasmus' On Free Will, “and try by all means to compass the mercy of God.” But shouldn't we know what or ...
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... happens in midlife that turns any male body from Hyperion to a satyr. It needs no ghost to tell us this—yet it's ungrateful news. Presumably Hamlet acts ineffectually because he is preoccupied by the one-two punch of his father's death ...
... happens in midlife that turns any male body from Hyperion to a satyr. It needs no ghost to tell us this—yet it's ungrateful news. Presumably Hamlet acts ineffectually because he is preoccupied by the one-two punch of his father's death ...
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... happen. “Our indiscretion sometime[s] serves us well/When our deep plots do pall.” But maybe he can only act by conceding it really doesn't matter, nothing (his own fate included) being in his hands anyway. One day in Milan my wife and ...
... happen. “Our indiscretion sometime[s] serves us well/When our deep plots do pall.” But maybe he can only act by conceding it really doesn't matter, nothing (his own fate included) being in his hands anyway. One day in Milan my wife and ...
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... happened during my transition from graduate school to the profession. The first was my attendance at a lecture given by my dissertation director, Professor Nohrnberg (“Plays behind the Play, Dramas behind the Arras: Re-writing the ...
... happened during my transition from graduate school to the profession. The first was my attendance at a lecture given by my dissertation director, Professor Nohrnberg (“Plays behind the Play, Dramas behind the Arras: Re-writing the ...
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... happens here in this scene. Here the vision of the individual person as at least potentially a king of infinite space is menaced by the notion of utter powerlessness and utter fixedness; we might think ourselves able to become anything ...
... happens here in this scene. Here the vision of the individual person as at least potentially a king of infinite space is menaced by the notion of utter powerlessness and utter fixedness; we might think ourselves able to become anything ...
Índice
Purgatory and the Value of Time | |
The Theater of Merit | |
Chastity and the Strumpet Fortune | |
The Be Protestantism and Silence | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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Hamlet, Protestantism, and the Mourning of Contingency: Not to Be Professor John E. Curran Jr Pré-visualização limitada - 2013 |
Hamlet, Protestantism, and the Mourning of Contingency: Not to Be John E. Curran Jr Pré-visualização limitada - 2016 |
Hamlet, Protestantism, and the Mourning of Contingency: Not to be John E. Curran Pré-visualização limitada - 2007 |
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