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
... play we perceive a pattern behind the pattern into which the characters deliberately involve themselves ... [Marston] spent nearly the whole of his dramatic career writing the kind of drama against which we feel that he rebelled. This ...
... play we perceive a pattern behind the pattern into which the characters deliberately involve themselves ... [Marston] spent nearly the whole of his dramatic career writing the kind of drama against which we feel that he rebelled. This ...
Sivu viii
... play (ason kills a tyrant who poisoned his father and wooed his mother) and enough clinches and situations shared with Shakespeare show Shakespeare's revenge tragedy knows Marston's, with which it compounds invention. Furthermore ...
... play (ason kills a tyrant who poisoned his father and wooed his mother) and enough clinches and situations shared with Shakespeare show Shakespeare's revenge tragedy knows Marston's, with which it compounds invention. Furthermore ...
Sivu x
Not to Be John E. Curran Jr. Shakespeare's play, in plain sight, is an exploded view of the famous complex: the beloved but displaced father guiltily haunting Hamlet should be re-cast as the usurping and resented uncle goading him to ...
Not to Be John E. Curran Jr. Shakespeare's play, in plain sight, is an exploded view of the famous complex: the beloved but displaced father guiltily haunting Hamlet should be re-cast as the usurping and resented uncle goading him to ...
Sivu xi
... play someone else has authored. Moreover, everyone who considers curiously is subjected to a disintegrating scrutiny of his performance and intentions—if only their motives for not having acted differently, or having perjured part of ...
... play someone else has authored. Moreover, everyone who considers curiously is subjected to a disintegrating scrutiny of his performance and intentions—if only their motives for not having acted differently, or having perjured part of ...
Sivu xiii
... condemned Bernadine manages to avoid his death-sentence by staying perpetually drunk. “Be absolute for death,” the priest-simulating Vicentio urges the same play's condemned Claudio: the counsel of an unattainable perfection. Foreword xiii.
... condemned Bernadine manages to avoid his death-sentence by staying perpetually drunk. “Be absolute for death,” the priest-simulating Vicentio urges the same play's condemned Claudio: the counsel of an unattainable perfection. Foreword xiii.
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 |
Hamlet, Protestantism, and the Mourning of Contingency: Not to be John E. Curran Rajoitettu esikatselu - 2007 |
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