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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... Laertes tells Ophelia's priest that Ophelia willbea ministering angel tohim, when he lies howling: a Beatricelike mediatrix providing what sacraments confer in our extremity.In the Moralities (Everyman, Castle of Perseverance) ...
... Laertes' soul; the Ghost's acknowledgement ofhis sinfulness; Hamlet's refusal tohear Horatioembrace truancy; Claudius' promise of—and Hamlet's request for—Laertes' absolution: any speech piercing ears byrevealing appalling sins ...
... Laertes anointed with anunction—like old Hamlet before him. (The Ghost's report, Gertrude's instruction, and the anointed rapier all allude to extremeunction.) Butonly Hamlet dies prereconciledto death, absolved byhimself, his ...
... Laertes' swordsmanship is reported admiringlyto Claudius bya nonpareil Normanwhom Laertes unsuspectingly identifies asone Lamord.Ifthename is anyindication, these two will meet again,the encounteris unavoidable. “If itbenotnow,yet ...
... Laertes at the grave,he maybe subjectto an uncontrollable “fitto tear acat in.”But diffident types, despite such acause,aren't wired that way. Hamlet becomes absorbed in spying onpeoplewho are also engaged inspying. But spying may ...
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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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