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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... ofthe mynde is ioynedtoit: as itis not like hewyle abidein hisglorie, becausehe is enuious and ambicious. Also when ... ofthe other. “Lest, however,” says William James, we“should stillshare the common prejudice that voluntary action ...
... of frustration.The feeling ultimately began with my finalyearsas anundergraduate at Williamand Mary, where, as ... ofthe conflict between Catholic and Protestant forms of religiosity were hatched overadecade ago,and evenwell before ...
... of my primary and secondary sources. The experience over a few years of sharingwith my students some ofthe basic points of the thesis led me towonder how obvious and obsolete it might be. The moreI read onHamlet, themoreI sensed that ...
... The Riverside Shakespeare, ed. G. Blakemore Evans et al. (Boston: HoughtonMifflin, 1974). All references to nonShakespearean Renaissance dramaunless otherwise noted are from Drama ofthe English Renaissance,2 vols.,ed. Russell A. Fraser ...
... of the mind, onlyto vouchsafe hislack ofconviction about them. To his old friends' protest against ... ofthe mind's capaciousness, of its abilityto fashion its owntruth and itsown good and to escape earthly constraints ...
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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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