Hamlet, Protestantism, and the Mourning of Contingency: Not to BeRoutledge, 22.4.2016 - 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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... role. But another kind of opportunist waits on occasion and delays taking the initiative until it can really be his. The critical transformation in Hamlet's vocation is precipitated by the attempt on his person on the high seas, where ...
... role. But another kind of opportunist waits on occasion and delays taking the initiative until it can really be his. The critical transformation in Hamlet's vocation is precipitated by the attempt on his person on the high seas, where ...
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... role in salvation, underlies all three of these waves of Catholic intellectualism, 10 and Calvinism stands in direct opposition to it. Calvinism emphasizes the absoluteness of God's predestinating control, and so, as a consequent of ...
... role in salvation, underlies all three of these waves of Catholic intellectualism, 10 and Calvinism stands in direct opposition to it. Calvinism emphasizes the absoluteness of God's predestinating control, and so, as a consequent of ...
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... role as an expression of his agreement to God's unalterable plan.27 In a play of Beza himself, Abraham's Sacrifice, we find a similar resonance, as Abraham, too, must accept an unwanted and even horrific role as a testament of obedience ...
... role as an expression of his agreement to God's unalterable plan.27 In a play of Beza himself, Abraham's Sacrifice, we find a similar resonance, as Abraham, too, must accept an unwanted and even horrific role as a testament of obedience ...
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... role in it. His initial bloodthirsty enthusiasm, “I come, I come, I come,” portends not his agency but its lack, as the play careers onward to debase and finally destroy him; impelled forward, he comes on, unstoppably rushed toward his ...
... role in it. His initial bloodthirsty enthusiasm, “I come, I come, I come,” portends not his agency but its lack, as the play careers onward to debase and finally destroy him; impelled forward, he comes on, unstoppably rushed toward his ...
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... role which debases and finally destroys him with no compensatory nobility; and the Prince's attempts to alter the role into something “single” are every bit as doomed, and as absurd, as Hoffman's are. Hoffman is clearly and declaredly ...
... role which debases and finally destroys him with no compensatory nobility; and the Prince's attempts to alter the role into something “single” are every bit as doomed, and as absurd, as Hoffman's are. Hoffman is clearly and declaredly ...
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Purgatory and the Value of Time | |
The Theater of Merit | |
Chastity and the Strumpet Fortune | |
The Be Protestantism and Silence | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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Hamlet, Protestantism, and the Mourning of Contingency: Not to Be Professor John E. Curran Jr Rajoitettu esikatselu - 2013 |
Hamlet, Protestantism, and the Mourning of Contingency: Not to Be John E. Curran Jr Rajoitettu esikatselu - 2016 |
Hamlet, Protestantism, and the Mourning of Contingency: Not to be John E. Curran Rajoitettu esikatselu - 2007 |
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