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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... Elizabethan 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 ...
... Elizabethan theology; Imake this suggestion not because I think Shakespeare was Catholicor becauseIwant himto have beenso,and not becauseof any personal allegiance of mine to any beliefsystem. Asa Methodist I am not a skepticout to ...
... Elizabethan England, Protestantism always wins,and its victory in theplay is finally acknowledged.But this victory isnotatall a happyone. With Hamlet Shakespearetakes the opportunity tolamentthe loss ofthe philosophical ...
... Elizabethan doctrine; and, Arminianism having asyet madeno substantial impact, “the years around1600,”as PhilipBenedict says,“were the highwatermark for predestination in English theology.”12 But whileShakespeare thuswrote Hamletatatime ...
... Elizabethan Drama,” Shakespeare Jahrbuch 120 (1984):49–51;Vernon Garth Miles, “Hamlet's Search for Philosophic Integration: A TwentiethCentury View,” Hamlet Studies 7(1985): 27–37; Linda Kay Hoff, Hamlet's Choice: Hamlet—A Reformation ...
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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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