Hamlet, Protestantism, and the Mourning of Contingency: Not to BeAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 28.4.2013 - 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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... happen. Thusthecommon identification of Edgar's “Ripenessis all” (V.ii.11) with Hamlet's“The readinessisall” (V.ii.218) seems tomeoff the mark.33Edgar admonishes his father, who hearingof Cordelia's defeatthreatens a relapseinto despair ...
... happen. Why could Christ's body not be in heaven and inmany different places on earth all at the same time?It were wrong toassume that in all cases things that occupy notone placeat a time“bicause they shall no whear be, they shall not ...
... happen, sowe canrest assured that the changeof thebread to the body ofChrist doeshappen. That which mightexist becomes inthis lightdeeply significant;far from simple nonexistence, what might be revitalizes our reality, giving us hope ...
... happen, and this wasa conception for Beconnot onlyuntrue but also repugnant. It is a conception, however, that appeals strongly to Hamlet as he questionsinthe “Tobeor notto be”speech (III.i.56–89) the nature ofesse and what would befor ...
... happen. Tocommit suicide would be to alter all the conditionsof Hamlet's life,hateful conditions that have been imposed on him. Suicide,as such adrastic way toseek change, emphasizes effectivelyhow desperate forselfmade change Hamlet is ...
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TheLoss of Contingency 2TheBe the Eucharist and the Logic of Protestantism | |
4The Theater of Merit 5 Chastity andthe Strumpet Fortune 6 The BeProtestantism and Silence | |
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