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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... truth is that my aim is nothing other than to express my feelings about what is going on in Hamlet. I see Hamlet as a Catholic-minded person trying futilely to apply his world view to a deterministic Protestant universe which he at last ...
... truth is that my aim is nothing other than to express my feelings about what is going on in Hamlet. I see Hamlet as a Catholic-minded person trying futilely to apply his world view to a deterministic Protestant universe which he at last ...
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... truth and its own good and to escape earthly constraints, which is worthy of Ficino himself: “things that in themselves are evil and harmful become in the mind good and beneficial.” Hamlet echoes the humanistic conception of the mind's ...
... truth and its own good and to escape earthly constraints, which is worthy of Ficino himself: “things that in themselves are evil and harmful become in the mind good and beneficial.” Hamlet echoes the humanistic conception of the mind's ...
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... truth the Prince has hit upon here with his bad dreams: the truth of the world as seen from the perspective of the Calvinistic Protestantism dominant at this time and in effect required of law to be believed by all Englishmen. In my ...
... truth the Prince has hit upon here with his bad dreams: the truth of the world as seen from the perspective of the Calvinistic Protestantism dominant at this time and in effect required of law to be believed by all Englishmen. In my ...
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Not to Be John E. Curran Jr. against this truth and against his nutshell of a life, which binds him in the tightest of spaces and which is incapable of being otherwise than it is. At key moments, as with his bad dreams here, Hamlet ...
Not to Be John E. Curran Jr. against this truth and against his nutshell of a life, which binds him in the tightest of spaces and which is incapable of being otherwise than it is. At key moments, as with his bad dreams here, Hamlet ...
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... truth; hence Hamlet's repeated attempts to apply the former vision are everywhere doomed to failure, as he himself at times glimpses with his bad dreams. The scene with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern closes with Hamlet's splendid encomium ...
... truth; hence Hamlet's repeated attempts to apply the former vision are everywhere doomed to failure, as he himself at times glimpses with his bad dreams. The scene with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern closes with Hamlet's splendid encomium ...
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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