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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... scene, for perfect justice which will kill the father's part of Julio without harming the mother's, catches another essential component of the whole atmosphere of quasi-religious commitment, simultaneously destroying and fulfilling ...
... scene, for perfect justice which will kill the father's part of Julio without harming the mother's, catches another essential component of the whole atmosphere of quasi-religious commitment, simultaneously destroying and fulfilling ...
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... scene, a discovery in which we see, not our past lives, but the total cultural form of our present life. It is not only the poet but his reader who is subject to the obligation to 'make it new'” (Frye 346). We must unbury Hamlet's ...
... scene, a discovery in which we see, not our past lives, but the total cultural form of our present life. It is not only the poet but his reader who is subject to the obligation to 'make it new'” (Frye 346). We must unbury Hamlet's ...
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... scene distributes this critique between Claudius—convinced he's unforgivable—and Hamlet, unsure if Claudius's contrition can be authentic. “A truly contrite sinner seeks out, and loves to pay, the penalties of his sins” (Theses 40). But ...
... scene distributes this critique between Claudius—convinced he's unforgivable—and Hamlet, unsure if Claudius's contrition can be authentic. “A truly contrite sinner seeks out, and loves to pay, the penalties of his sins” (Theses 40). But ...
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... scene doth report too much. Ophelia's capability drifts off before our very eyes—or ears. Hamlet labors faculty throughout. Claudius ruminates on faculty without grace; Luther warns that's no faculty at all. Nobody, Erasmus maintained ...
... scene doth report too much. Ophelia's capability drifts off before our very eyes—or ears. Hamlet labors faculty throughout. Claudius ruminates on faculty without grace; Luther warns that's no faculty at all. Nobody, Erasmus maintained ...
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... scenes after killing Polonius, Hamlet tells Claudius he's at supper: “Not where he eats, but where 'a is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet.” Hamlet demonstrates the ...
... scenes after killing Polonius, Hamlet tells Claudius he's at supper: “Not where he eats, but where 'a is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet.” Hamlet demonstrates the ...
Índice
Purgatory and the Value of Time | |
The Theater of Merit | |
Chastity and the Strumpet Fortune | |
The Be Protestantism and Silence | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
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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