Hamlet, Protestantism, and the Mourning of Contingency: Not to BeBuilding 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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... Christianity I.Title 822.3'3 Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Curran, John E., 1968– Hamlet,Protestantism, andthemourningof contingency: not to be/ byJohnE. CurranJr. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references andindex ...
... Christian drama, English – History and criticism. 6. Politics andliterature –Great Britain – History – 16th century.7. Politics andliterature –GreatBritain – History – 17th century. 8. Contingency (Philosophy) I. Title. PR2807.C84 2006 ...
... Christ)—precipitates theReformation. AtTrent the Church pronounces anathemaon Protestants' objections: you must ... Christians must reckon with. Whether geographic or apparitional (cf. Gregory, Dialogues IV.40), Purgatory explained how ...
... Christian people...are neglected andsufferedto perish; last wills [are]unfulfilled and broken....”; “innumerable workshave been offered inavain attempt toremit sin”;monasteries' foundations “have been takenfor sufficient satisfaction ...
... Christ's legal merits)makes sacraments wholly ancillary to salvation. Ifone is elect, they signifymerely that. Calvinistic, obsignatory views, widely found among English Reformers (Coverdale,Latimer, Ridley, Cranmer, Hooper, Jewel) ...
Contents
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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