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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... scene,for a perfectjustice whichwill kill thefather'spart ofJulio without harming the mother's, catches another essential component of the whole atmosphere of quasireligious commitment, simultaneously destroying and fulfilling those ...
... scene,a discovery inwhich we see, not our past lives,but the totalcultural form ofour present life. Itisnot only the poet buthisreader whois subjecttothe obligation to 'make it new'” (Frye 346). We mustunbury Hamlet's theological dead ...
... scene distributes thiscritique between Claudius— convinced he's unforgivable—and Hamlet, unsure if Claudius's contrition can be authentic. “A truly contrite sinner seeks out,and lovesto pay,the penalties ofhis sins”(Theses 40). Butdoes ...
... scene after sceneof Hamlet's business andaction. But an interest equally great residesinthe extended explanation the book offers for ourown culture'sfascination with theplay: namely, our constitutional unreadiness (or sheer inability) ...
... scene. Here the vision of theindividual person asatleast potentially aking ofinfinite spaceismenaced bythe notionof utterpowerlessness and utter fixedness;we might thinkourselves able tobecomeanything, but a fardifferent actuality looms ...
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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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