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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Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 76
Sivu viii
... Renaissance man thrown into a Reformation arena. The curious and experimental Doctor, a skeptical Renaissance scholar, dies in a medieval tragedy of humiliated pride; thereafter, the suppositious, suspicious, and speculative Hamlet, a ...
... Renaissance man thrown into a Reformation arena. The curious and experimental Doctor, a skeptical Renaissance scholar, dies in a medieval tragedy of humiliated pride; thereafter, the suppositious, suspicious, and speculative Hamlet, a ...
Sivu x
... Renaissance Christendom's Hamlet complex. Freud's Letter to Fleiss of October 15, 1897, reports his famous find during his own self-analysis: I found the love of the mother and jealousy of the father in my case too, and now believe it ...
... Renaissance Christendom's Hamlet complex. Freud's Letter to Fleiss of October 15, 1897, reports his famous find during his own self-analysis: I found the love of the mother and jealousy of the father in my case too, and now believe it ...
Sivu xi
... Renaissance/Reformation sensibility, it could hardly be otherwise. Bacon famously reported England's Queen not wishing “to make windows into men's hearts and secret thoughts, except the abundance of them did overflow into overt express ...
... Renaissance/Reformation sensibility, it could hardly be otherwise. Bacon famously reported England's Queen not wishing “to make windows into men's hearts and secret thoughts, except the abundance of them did overflow into overt express ...
Sivu xxiv
... Renaissance yet prevented from using it by the Reformation. In Act III Hamlet considers suicide, but if he fears it's irrevocable, like his father's state at death, he's likely to leave it to chance to commit it for him: in Act V. An ...
... Renaissance yet prevented from using it by the Reformation. In Act III Hamlet considers suicide, but if he fears it's irrevocable, like his father's state at death, he's likely to leave it to chance to commit it for him: in Act V. An ...
Sivu xxv
... Renaissance man who finds himself castin a hostile Reformation play (the latter being a “mousetrap” he helplessly protests against his having inevitably been caught in himself), then, according to Curran, it is the specters of ...
... Renaissance man who finds himself castin a hostile Reformation play (the latter being a “mousetrap” he helplessly protests against his having inevitably been caught in himself), then, according to Curran, it is the specters of ...
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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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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