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 viii
... scene, for a perfect justice which will kill the father's part of Julio without harming the mother's, catches another essential component of the whole atmosphere of quasi-religious commitment, simultaneously destroying and fulfilling ...
... scene, for a perfect justice which will kill the father's part of Julio without harming the mother's, catches another essential component of the whole atmosphere of quasi-religious commitment, simultaneously destroying and fulfilling ...
Sivu xi
... scene, a discovery in which we see, not our past lives, but the total cultural form of our present life. It is not only the poet but his reader who is subject to the obligation to 'make it new'” (Frye 346). We must unbury Hamlet's ...
... scene, a discovery in which we see, not our past lives, but the total cultural form of our present life. It is not only the poet but his reader who is subject to the obligation to 'make it new'” (Frye 346). We must unbury Hamlet's ...
Sivu xii
... fide penitents were rare (30). Hamlet's central scene distributes this critique between Claudius—convinced he's unforgivable—and Hamlet, unsure if Claudius's contrition can Hamlet, Protestantism, and the Mourning of Contingency xii.
... fide penitents were rare (30). Hamlet's central scene distributes this critique between Claudius—convinced he's unforgivable—and Hamlet, unsure if Claudius's contrition can Hamlet, Protestantism, and the Mourning of Contingency xii.
Sivu xvi
... scenes after killing Polonius, Hamlet tells Claudius he's at supper: “Not where he eats, but where 'a is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet.” Hamlet demonstrates the ...
... scenes after killing Polonius, Hamlet tells Claudius he's at supper: “Not where he eats, but where 'a is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet.” Hamlet demonstrates the ...
Sivu xxv
... scene after scene of Hamlet's business and action. But an interest equally great resides in the extended explanation the book offers for our own culture's fascination with the play: namely, our constitutional unreadiness (or sheer ...
... scene after scene of Hamlet's business and action. But an interest equally great resides in the extended explanation the book offers for our own culture's fascination with the play: namely, our constitutional unreadiness (or sheer ...
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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