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
... nature. He will give thanks to God and nature and will always be ready to die, nor will he fear death, since fear of the inevitable is vain; and he will see nothing evil in death. Pietro Pomponazzi, On the Immortality of the Soul, ch ...
... nature. He will give thanks to God and nature and will always be ready to die, nor will he fear death, since fear of the inevitable is vain; and he will see nothing evil in death. Pietro Pomponazzi, On the Immortality of the Soul, ch ...
Sivu xiv
... nature is kindness itself; incapable of surrendering ill-gotten gains, Claudius must. “Help angels, make assay!” No angels show, they've missed their flights. Faustus cries “nothing can rescue me”; his soul's immortality is a curse. His ...
... nature is kindness itself; incapable of surrendering ill-gotten gains, Claudius must. “Help angels, make assay!” No angels show, they've missed their flights. Faustus cries “nothing can rescue me”; his soul's immortality is a curse. His ...
Sivu xx
... Nature. Hamlet, however, doesn't seem to feel there's something towards that will end his life in one way better than another. Every life is a complete life, albeit a sparrow's; otherwise, Hamlet fatalistically concludes, it would ...
... Nature. Hamlet, however, doesn't seem to feel there's something towards that will end his life in one way better than another. Every life is a complete life, albeit a sparrow's; otherwise, Hamlet fatalistically concludes, it would ...
Sivu xxii
... nature of the mynde is ioyned to it: as it is not like he wyle abide in his glorie, because he is enuious and ambicious. Also when we counsell one to leaue of[f] vayne mouthynge, when it is not in his power to get agayne that is gone ...
... nature of the mynde is ioyned to it: as it is not like he wyle abide in his glorie, because he is enuious and ambicious. Also when we counsell one to leaue of[f] vayne mouthynge, when it is not in his power to get agayne that is gone ...
Sivu xxiii
... nature impulsive” (Principles 2:526). Hamlet kills Polonius, and the action lacks resolve or the formation of will by premeditation, yet scarcely lacks intent. It has a decisive advantage in being voluntary but effortless, yet lacks the ...
... nature impulsive” (Principles 2:526). Hamlet kills Polonius, and the action lacks resolve or the formation of will by premeditation, yet scarcely lacks intent. It has a decisive advantage in being voluntary but effortless, yet lacks the ...
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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