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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... thought,was its postulation oftwo wills.In Curran'sterms, indeed so:thetwo fathers, orwills, would be Catholicism and Protestantism. It hardly matters which resembles which,ifason of theChurchis analogously conjured byboth her patrons ...
... thoughts, exceptthe abundanceof themdid overflow intoovert expressacts and affirmations ... impugning and impeaching advisedly and ambitiously her majesty's supreme power” (Certain Observations ... Published ... 1592). Don'task, don't ...
... thought of could never reach me ... though Ihad some intervals of quiet,I was still faroff fromtrue peace of conscience; for, whenever I descended into myself, or raised mymind to [God], extreme terror seized me—terrorwhich no ...
... thought or act. ... The peculiar forceof Hamletlies in itscontention thatthere isno escape from this guilt. Our imperfection cannot besweetened byour acts or limited in its effectby our caution (Rebecca West, Court and Castle, 74f ...
... thoughts on Hamlet— itsimplications for human and Western cultural psychology andfor Westernworld intellectual history—for purposes of introducing the religious dialectic underpinning thisstudy, and helpingtoframe and contextualize ...
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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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