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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... Polonius—Hamlet must be performatively false to beinwardly true? Could the heart on his sleeveever expose the heart of hismystery? Or does acurseof histrionic ham hauntthe Prince's born hypocrite or pathological prevaricator,as ...
... Polonius isin heaven—Polonius' corpse, however, could corrupt and earthly host down here. putrefy, like the For Protestants the mass becomes adiet of worms.—Anda poisoned chalice, the Whore of Babylon's lethal cup. Hamlet finally forces ...
... Polonius' playing fatherconfessor toOphelia; Claudius' spiritually advising Hamletand promising tolaborwith Laertes' soul; the Ghost's acknowledgement ofhis sinfulness; Hamlet's refusal tohear Horatioembrace truancy; Claudius' promise ...
... Polonius also hearkens back to Eglon, prophetically knifed in the royal latrine (Judges 3:16–25). Unlike FriarLaurence,Hamlet presents an unfriendly confessor: galling—not soothing—consciences. Virtuoso soulsearcherand penanceprescriber ...
... Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz andGuildenstern also go unpreparedto death. Gertrude dieshaplessly enough—she joins the group. Others die administered to inparodic rites ofextremity, Claudius taking the cup, Laertes anointed with ...
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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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