Hamlet, Protestantism, and the Mourning of Contingency: Not to BeAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 28.4.2013 - 278 sivua 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, quotations from Marston's Antonio's Revenge illustrate itsauthor's being, “like some of the greatest of[Elizabethan playwrights], occupied in writing something elsethan appears in the literal actions and characters whom ...
... drama renegotiate the cathartic function, whenever priestcraft migrates from the ecclesiasticalstageto theatre's secular one. Ophelia's obsequiesare aritesans celebration,with Laertesasking persistent questions pertaining to sacraments ...
... Drama ofthe English Renaissance,2 vols.,ed. Russell A. Fraser and Norman Rabkin (New York: Macmillan, 1976). Allreferences toThomas Aquinas and to the Summa Theologica are fromSumma Theologica, 3 vols., trans. The Fathersof the English ...
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TheLoss of Contingency 2TheBe the Eucharist and the Logic of Protestantism | |
4The Theater of Merit 5 Chastity andthe Strumpet Fortune 6 The BeProtestantism and Silence | |
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