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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... Hamlet truly is. Thus began my pattern of being strangely bothered by this play and of trying to exercise myself to understand it, at least to my own satisfaction. Never placing Hamlet at the forefront of my graduate studies, lacking ...
... Hamlet truly is. Thus began my pattern of being strangely bothered by this play and of trying to exercise myself to understand it, at least to my own satisfaction. Never placing Hamlet at the forefront of my graduate studies, lacking ...
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... Hamlet, and that they do have a presence in it. The usefulness of this book will depend largely on whether I have been successful in this. It will also depend on how correct I am in presuming that few studies have advanced this thesis ...
... Hamlet, and that they do have a presence in it. The usefulness of this book will depend largely on whether I have been successful in this. It will also depend on how correct I am in presuming that few studies have advanced this thesis ...
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... studies and in American society, I feel I should also explain my intentions with regard to religion. The truth is that my aim is nothing other than to express my feelings about what is going on in Hamlet. I see Hamlet as a Catholic ...
... studies and in American society, I feel I should also explain my intentions with regard to religion. The truth is that my aim is nothing other than to express my feelings about what is going on in Hamlet. I see Hamlet as a Catholic ...
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... Studies in Shakespeare's Tragic Structure (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973), 119; A. D. Nuttall, The Stoic in Love (Savage, MD: Barnes and Noble, 1990), 28–29; Marvin Rosenberg, The Masks of Hamlet (Newark: University of Delaware ...
... Studies in Shakespeare's Tragic Structure (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973), 119; A. D. Nuttall, The Stoic in Love (Savage, MD: Barnes and Noble, 1990), 28–29; Marvin Rosenberg, The Masks of Hamlet (Newark: University of Delaware ...
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... Studies in Theatre, Religion, and Resistance (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004), 44–70. 6 David Kaula, “Hamlet and The Image of Both Churches,” Studies in English Literature 24 (1984): 241–55; Raymond B. Waddington, “Lutheran ...
... Studies in Theatre, Religion, and Resistance (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004), 44–70. 6 David Kaula, “Hamlet and The Image of Both Churches,” Studies in English Literature 24 (1984): 241–55; Raymond B. Waddington, “Lutheran ...
Contents
Purgatory and the Value of Time | |
The Theater of Merit | |
Chastity and the Strumpet Fortune | |
The Be Protestantism and Silence | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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