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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Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 78
Sivu ix
... thought penance should mean a never-ending punishment of the Old Adam's sin and grieving over human imperfection and depravity—not buying your way out of Purgatory. His assault on the sacramental system elaborated from the thirteenth ...
... thought penance should mean a never-ending punishment of the Old Adam's sin and grieving over human imperfection and depravity—not buying your way out of Purgatory. His assault on the sacramental system elaborated from the thirteenth ...
Sivu x
... thought, was its postulation of two wills. In Curran's terms, indeed so: the two fathers, or wills, would be Catholicism and Protestantism. It hardly matters which resembles which, if a son of the Church is analogously conjured by both ...
... thought, was its postulation of two wills. In Curran's terms, indeed so: the two fathers, or wills, would be Catholicism and Protestantism. It hardly matters which resembles which, if a son of the Church is analogously conjured by both ...
Sivu xi
... thoughts, except the abundance of them did overflow into overt express acts and affirmations ... impugning and impeaching advisedly and ambitiously her majesty's supreme power” (Certain Observations ... Published ... 1592). Don't ask ...
... thoughts, except the abundance of them did overflow into overt express acts and affirmations ... impugning and impeaching advisedly and ambitiously her majesty's supreme power” (Certain Observations ... Published ... 1592). Don't ask ...
Sivu xiii
... thought of could never reach me ... though I had some intervals of quiet, I was still far-off from true peace of conscience; for, whenever I descended into myself, or raised my mind to [God], extreme terror seized me—terror which no ...
... thought of could never reach me ... though I had some intervals of quiet, I was still far-off from true peace of conscience; for, whenever I descended into myself, or raised my mind to [God], extreme terror seized me—terror which no ...
Sivu xx
... thought or act. ... The peculiar force of Hamlet lies in its contention that there is no escape from this guilt. Our imperfection cannot be sweetened by our acts or limited in its effect by our caution (Rebecca West, Court and Castle ...
... thought or act. ... The peculiar force of Hamlet lies in its contention that there is no escape from this guilt. Our imperfection cannot be sweetened by our acts or limited in its effect by our caution (Rebecca West, Court and Castle ...
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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