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
... 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-pattern, less manifest than the theatrical one. ... It is not ...
... 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-pattern, less manifest than the theatrical one. ... It is not ...
Sivu xii
... possible in the cases of the most perfect, i.e., to very few”; “There is no divine authority for preaching that the soul flies out of purgatory immediately the money clinks in the bottom of the chest. Who knows whether all souls in ...
... possible in the cases of the most perfect, i.e., to very few”; “There is no divine authority for preaching that the soul flies out of purgatory immediately the money clinks in the bottom of the chest. Who knows whether all souls in ...
Sivu xxiii
... possible occurrence of it with no fiat or express resolve, is the fact that consciousness is in its very nature impulsive” (Principles 2:526). Hamlet kills Polonius, and the action lacks resolve or the formation of will by premeditation ...
... possible occurrence of it with no fiat or express resolve, is the fact that consciousness is in its very nature impulsive” (Principles 2:526). Hamlet kills Polonius, and the action lacks resolve or the formation of will by premeditation ...
Sivu xxviii
... possible, I have tried to demonstrate both that the trends of thought I discuss were in existence at the time of Hamlet, and that they do have a presence in it. The usefulness of this book will depend largely on whether I have been ...
... possible, I have tried to demonstrate both that the trends of thought I discuss were in existence at the time of Hamlet, and that they do have a presence in it. The usefulness of this book will depend largely on whether I have been ...
Sivu xxix
... possible my perseverance with it. My debts to Professor Nohrnberg and to my students I have already noted, though I should certainly also note how those debts have since compounded themselves in extraordinary ways. Of these the most ...
... possible my perseverance with it. My debts to Professor Nohrnberg and to my students I have already noted, though I should certainly also note how those debts have since compounded themselves in extraordinary ways. Of these the most ...
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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