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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... Drama – Religious aspects – Christianity I.Title 822.3'3 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Curran, John E., 1968– Hamlet, Protestantism, and the mourning of contingency : not to be / by John E. Curran Jr. p. cm ...
... Drama – Religious aspects – Christianity I.Title 822.3'3 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Curran, John E., 1968– Hamlet, Protestantism, and the mourning of contingency : not to be / by John E. Curran Jr. p. cm ...
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... drama from prosaic drama is a kind of doubleness in the action, as if it took place on two planes at once. ... the drama has an under-pattern, less manifest than the theatrical one. ... It is not by writing quotable “poetic” passages ...
... drama from prosaic drama is a kind of doubleness in the action, as if it took place on two planes at once. ... the drama has an under-pattern, less manifest than the theatrical one. ... It is not by writing quotable “poetic” passages ...
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... dramas were such failures. ... Every member of the audience was once a budding Oedipus in phantasy, and this dream-fulfillment played out in reality causes everyone to recoil in horror, with the full measure of repression which ...
... dramas were such failures. ... Every member of the audience was once a budding Oedipus in phantasy, and this dream-fulfillment played out in reality causes everyone to recoil in horror, with the full measure of repression which ...
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... drama behind Hamlet's arras is psychological because it is theological: given a Renaissance/Reformation sensibility, it could hardly be otherwise. Bacon famously reported England's Queen not wishing “to make windows into men's hearts ...
... drama behind Hamlet's arras is psychological because it is theological: given a Renaissance/Reformation sensibility, it could hardly be otherwise. Bacon famously reported England's Queen not wishing “to make windows into men's hearts ...
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... drama renegotiate the cathartic function, whenever priestcraft migrates from the ecclesiastical stage to theatre's secular one. Ophelia's obsequies are a rite sans celebration, with Laertes asking persistent questions pertaining to ...
... drama renegotiate the cathartic function, whenever priestcraft migrates from the ecclesiastical stage to theatre's secular one. Ophelia's obsequies are a rite sans celebration, with Laertes asking persistent questions pertaining to ...
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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