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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... bythe 1552 PrayerBook, Elizabethans retained sacramental ministrations,but no automatic vehicles ofgrace.Old Hamlet didn't likeexpiring without them —unhouseled, disappointed,unaneled: nocommunion, confession, penance, absolution ...
... bythe living's prayersor suffrages onthe dead's behalf? Where, if it's literallya place, is Purgatory's site? Isitsfire actual, orafigure for something else? Isitefficacious only if it consumessin, not souls—yet “bites” these ...
... by the payment ofa trifling portionof theillicit gains, [the sinner] was assured ... he could retainthe rest with ... bythe wellfound shipitself” (Pagan Servitude). Hamlet is landed nakedon theshore of Denmark, Claudius lacks faith in ...
... by the applause ofother passengers, we'd not ordinarily have done this— we're notItalian. Throwing our normal caution to the ... bythe anxious changing of the guardwith whichitopens—as if thereplacing ofthewatch on the parapet signaledan ...
... bythe notionof utterpowerlessness and utter fixedness;we might thinkourselves able tobecomeanything, but a fardifferent actuality looms.Asthe play shows,from Calvinistic Protestantism itfollows that in truth we aretotally helpless and ...
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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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