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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... ofthe legend in 1897 changedthe whole literary problem. It hasbeen assertednow thatthe Faust ofthisunknown author ... of the world—to thebody of the Elect. The Reformation understood itselfas a humanitywide attack on ecclesiastical ...
... ofthe sacraments, and indeedof selfreformation—which Calvin's arguments would make mostly impossible. Composed ... of the elder Hamlet himself. “To double business bound,” Hamlet fils avoids provoking agood father while repelling abad ...
... of the Death of Beloved Persons.” Nosuch dreamappears inHamlet itself,“yet dreams advise,” and, properly explicated ... ofthe pastisnot only the memoryof mankind,but our own buriedlife, and studyof itleadsto a recognition scene,a ...
... the cases of themost perfect, i.e., to very few”; “There isno divine authority for preaching that thesoul flies out ofpurgatory immediately the money clinks in thebottom ofthe chest. Who knowswhether all soulsin purgatory wish to be ...
... of the portalsforthedying man's soul): in conjunction with confession, absolution,and administration ofthe viaticum (for travelingto that undiscovered country whereour soul is“bourne,” from whichaspirit impossibly “returns”). Regular ...
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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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