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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... in the meritsof Christ)—precipitates theReformation. AtTrent the Church pronounces anathemaon Protestants' objections: you ... inthe thirteenth century, when such doctrines about thesacraments emerged asones Christians must reckon with ...
... inthe drama renegotiate the cathartic function, whenever priestcraft migrates from the ecclesiasticalstageto ... In the Moralities (Everyman, Castle of Perseverance), Confession saves. Hamlet, perforce, like Faustus, confesses ...
... [inthe elements],” Zwingli asks, “how would theyelevate it?”(“On the Lord's Supper”after Dolan, Reformation, 272)—and what force pins Faustus to the floor? Since Zwingli divides spiritual presence from physical bodies, it's goodbye Ghost ...
... inthe churchof the Holy Communion of theBody and Bloodof ourSavior Christ. Whichif they do, they shall have no cause in their sudden visitation to be unquieted for lack of the same. Properly attended to, the malade will have been ...
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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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