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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... Polonius—Hamlet must be performatively false to be inwardly true? Could the heart on his sleeve ever expose the heart of his mystery? Or does a curse of histrionic ham haunt the Prince's born hypocrite or pathological prevaricator, as ...
... Polonius—Hamlet must be performatively false to be inwardly true? Could the heart on his sleeve ever expose the heart of his mystery? Or does a curse of histrionic ham haunt the Prince's born hypocrite or pathological prevaricator, as ...
Sivu xvi
... Polonius is in heaven—Polonius' corpse, however, could corrupt and putrefy, like the earthly host down here. For Protestants the mass becomes a diet of worms.—And a poisoned chalice, the Whore of Babylon's lethal cup. Hamlet finally ...
... Polonius is in heaven—Polonius' corpse, however, could corrupt and putrefy, like the earthly host down here. For Protestants the mass becomes a diet of worms.—And a poisoned chalice, the Whore of Babylon's lethal cup. Hamlet finally ...
Sivu xvii
... Polonius' playing father-confessor to Ophelia; Claudius' spiritually advising Hamlet and promising to labor with Laertes' soul; the Ghost's acknowledgement of his sinfulness; Hamlet's refusal to hear Horatio embrace truancy; Claudius ...
... Polonius' playing father-confessor to Ophelia; Claudius' spiritually advising Hamlet and promising to labor with Laertes' soul; the Ghost's acknowledgement of his sinfulness; Hamlet's refusal to hear Horatio embrace truancy; Claudius ...
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... Polonius is obsessed with the sexuality of his children, Hamlet with that of his elders. “Let his queen mother all alone entreat him/To show his grief ... I'll be placed in the ear/Of all their conference,” the busy-body offers. The ...
... Polonius is obsessed with the sexuality of his children, Hamlet with that of his elders. “Let his queen mother all alone entreat him/To show his grief ... I'll be placed in the ear/Of all their conference,” the busy-body offers. The ...
Sivu xix
... Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern also go unprepared to death. Gertrude dies haplessly enough—she joins the group. Others die administered to in parodic rites of extremity, Claudius taking the cup, Laertes anointed with an ...
... Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern also go unprepared to death. Gertrude dies haplessly enough—she joins the group. Others die administered to in parodic rites of extremity, Claudius taking the cup, Laertes anointed with an ...
Sisältö
The Loss of Contingency | 1 |
2 The Be the Eucharist and the Logic of Protestantism | 18 |
3 Purgatory and the Value of Time | 65 |
4 The Theater of Merit | 103 |
5 Chastity and the Strumpet Fortune | 155 |
6 The Be Protestantism and Silence | 201 |
Bibliography | 219 |
Index | 243 |
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