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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Sivu vii
... actions and characters whom he manipulates.” Moreover, [i]t is possible that what distinguishes poetic drama from prosaic drama is a kind of doubleness in the action, as if it took place on two planes at once. ... the drama has an under ...
... actions and characters whom he manipulates.” Moreover, [i]t is possible that what distinguishes poetic drama from prosaic drama is a kind of doubleness in the action, as if it took place on two planes at once. ... the drama has an under ...
Sivu xi
... actions must begin. Conscripted by like compulsions, undeterred by any gag-order, Curran's book confesses an analogous descent. “The culture of the past is not only the memory of mankind, but our own buried life, and study of it leads ...
... actions must begin. Conscripted by like compulsions, undeterred by any gag-order, Curran's book confesses an analogous descent. “The culture of the past is not only the memory of mankind, but our own buried life, and study of it leads ...
Sivu xix
... actions secularized by the play itself—the chalice does not reify the Lord's Supper, but the capacity to consecrate an act; penance does not relieve the pains of purgatory, but informs the desire to purify a motive; extreme unction ...
... actions secularized by the play itself—the chalice does not reify the Lord's Supper, but the capacity to consecrate an act; penance does not relieve the pains of purgatory, but informs the desire to purify a motive; extreme unction ...
Sivu xxi
... action, it's hardly perfect from the point of view of economy or avoiding a bloodbath. It is mired in what it bequeaths, a complete shambles: sprawling, haphazard, and bestrewn with the meaningless demises of Polonius, Ophelia ...
... action, it's hardly perfect from the point of view of economy or avoiding a bloodbath. It is mired in what it bequeaths, a complete shambles: sprawling, haphazard, and bestrewn with the meaningless demises of Polonius, Ophelia ...
Sivu xxiii
... action without 'exertion of will-power' is Hamlet with the prince's part left out,” “[t]he first point to start from in understanding voluntary action, and the possible occurrence of it with no fiat or express resolve, is the fact that ...
... action without 'exertion of will-power' is Hamlet with the prince's part left out,” “[t]he first point to start from in understanding voluntary action, and the possible occurrence of it with no fiat or express resolve, is the fact that ...
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 John E. Curran Jr Rajoitettu esikatselu - 2016 |
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