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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Página ix
... Gertrude to penance— assigning to administer to her only heaven and her own priesthood, “those thorns that in her bosom lodge/To prick and sting her.” Luther thought penance should mean a never-ending punishment of the Old Adam's sin ...
... Gertrude to penance— assigning to administer to her only heaven and her own priesthood, “those thorns that in her bosom lodge/To prick and sting her.” Luther thought penance should mean a never-ending punishment of the Old Adam's sin ...
Página xiv
... Gertrude pushes her off against her will, she's hardly had it at all. One thinks the lady solely witnessing her last scene doth report too much. Ophelia's capability drifts off before our very eyes—or ears. Hamlet labors faculty ...
... Gertrude pushes her off against her will, she's hardly had it at all. One thinks the lady solely witnessing her last scene doth report too much. Ophelia's capability drifts off before our very eyes—or ears. Hamlet labors faculty ...
Página xvii
... Gertrude's sins their last rites (“unction”), before she's undertaken a life's worth of repentance (see III.iv.135–43). Yet he would stage what Reformers removed from the Church—giving himself the holy office Reform clergy were brought ...
... Gertrude's sins their last rites (“unction”), before she's undertaken a life's worth of repentance (see III.iv.135–43). Yet he would stage what Reformers removed from the Church—giving himself the holy office Reform clergy were brought ...
Página xviii
... Gertrude's bedroom. “It seems strange that it was not until the Counter-Reformation had commenced that the simple and useful device of the confessional was introduced—a box in which the confessor sits, with a grille in the side, through ...
... Gertrude's bedroom. “It seems strange that it was not until the Counter-Reformation had commenced that the simple and useful device of the confessional was introduced—a box in which the confessor sits, with a grille in the side, through ...
Página xix
... Gertrude dies haplessly enough—she joins the group. Others die administered to in parodic rites of extremity, Claudius taking the cup, Laertes anointed with an unction—like old Hamlet before him. (The Ghost's report, Gertrude's ...
... Gertrude dies haplessly enough—she joins the group. Others die administered to in parodic rites of extremity, Claudius taking the cup, Laertes anointed with an unction—like old Hamlet before him. (The Ghost's report, Gertrude's ...
Índice
The Loss of Contingency | 1 |
2 The Be the Eucharist and the Logic of Protestantism | 18 |
3 Purgatory and the Value of Time | 65 |
4 The Theater of Merit | 103 |
5 Chastity and the Strumpet Fortune | 155 |
6 The Be Protestantism and Silence | 201 |
Bibliography | 219 |
Index | 243 |
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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