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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... whathe there christened, butlinkedit directly to Hamlet, and moreover tothe deathof Shakespeare's father andson (Hamnet): in the section titled “Dreams of the Death of Beloved Persons.” Nosuch dreamappears inHamlet itself,“yet dreams ...
... whathe is,a body of offenses demandingexpiation. Claudius' poisonworks changes finallyissuingin Hamlet's coroner's report on diseased souls. Themessy estateleft bythefather drivesthe sonto renewed urgencies about everyone's cleaning ...
... what he thinks is expected of him: “Hisown individual selfis stuntedthrough hisbeing forcedto conform with his parents' expectations. Heloses ... thecapacity for initiative ofhisown.” A lessauthoritarian or more loving father than ...
... what he believes, butaswhathecould believeif itwere notfor his“bad dreams” (II.ii.255–56). Evidently hehassome inkling that tocount himselfa king of infinite space was hopelessly naïveandfalse; something tells him his reality is that he ...
... what he is but only whathe is not, his undisclosed realself takes on richness and diversityin potentia.”29 The Not to be is farnobler because it comprisesa universeof alternative realities. Looking at the question of beingin the most ...
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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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