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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... Shakespeare show Shakespeare's revenge tragedy knows Marston's, with which it compounds invention. Furthermore, assuming there was indeed an Ur-Hamlet, the intractable task of reformation imposed on Hamlet's reluctant protagonist ...
... Shakespeare show Shakespeare's revenge tragedy knows Marston's, with which it compounds invention. Furthermore, assuming there was indeed an Ur-Hamlet, the intractable task of reformation imposed on Hamlet's reluctant protagonist ...
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... Shakespeare, “it is not so much that Freud brought the Oedipus complex to ... Shakespeare's father and son (Hamnet): in the section titled “Dreams of the Death of ... tragedy “leads up to an epiphany of law” (Anatomy, 208), hence Hamlet's ...
... Shakespeare, “it is not so much that Freud brought the Oedipus complex to ... Shakespeare's father and son (Hamnet): in the section titled “Dreams of the Death of ... tragedy “leads up to an epiphany of law” (Anatomy, 208), hence Hamlet's ...
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... Shakespeare inherits The Misfortunes of Arthur's report: I neuer yet sawe ... Tragedy, that openeth the greatest wounds, and sheweth forth the Vlcers that ... tragedy's origins in those great men who had succumbed to “lusts and ...
... Shakespeare inherits The Misfortunes of Arthur's report: I neuer yet sawe ... Tragedy, that openeth the greatest wounds, and sheweth forth the Vlcers that ... tragedy's origins in those great men who had succumbed to “lusts and ...
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... Tragedy of Hamlet,” University of Virginia Department of English colloquium, “Shakespeare Now Conference,” April 1996). The insights of this lecture, some of which form a basis for his magnificent foreword to this book, made a powerful ...
... Tragedy of Hamlet,” University of Virginia Department of English colloquium, “Shakespeare Now Conference,” April 1996). The insights of this lecture, some of which form a basis for his magnificent foreword to this book, made a powerful ...
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... Tragedy (London: Hollis and Carter, 1955), 11; Maynard Mack, Killing the King: Three 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 ...
... Tragedy (London: Hollis and Carter, 1955), 11; Maynard Mack, Killing the King: Three 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 ...
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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