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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... example, Fury-haunted Orestes. Its universally acknowledged mask shows eyes out, hair standing on end, face twisted in a Gorgonical or Caravaggio-esque grimace of pain or rictus of terror. Quasi-religious or quasi-Jungian, Macbeth ...
... example, Fury-haunted Orestes. Its universally acknowledged mask shows eyes out, hair standing on end, face twisted in a Gorgonical or Caravaggio-esque grimace of pain or rictus of terror. Quasi-religious or quasi-Jungian, Macbeth ...
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... example, his fourth soliloquy, on a fellow prince bravely trying his luck: “I do not know/Why yet I live to say, 'This thing's to do,'/Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means/To do't. ... Witness this army ... Led by a ...
... example, his fourth soliloquy, on a fellow prince bravely trying his luck: “I do not know/Why yet I live to say, 'This thing's to do,'/Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means/To do't. ... Witness this army ... Led by a ...
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... example Robert Speaight, Nature in Shakespearian 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 ...
... example Robert Speaight, Nature in Shakespearian 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 ...
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... example I. J. Semper, Hamlet without Tears (Dubuque: Loras College Press, 1946); H. Mutschmann and K. Wentersdorf, Shakespeare and Catholicism (New York: Sheed and Ward, 1952), 220–22, 238–48, 363–65; M. D. H. Parker, The Slave of Life ...
... example I. J. Semper, Hamlet without Tears (Dubuque: Loras College Press, 1946); H. Mutschmann and K. Wentersdorf, Shakespeare and Catholicism (New York: Sheed and Ward, 1952), 220–22, 238–48, 363–65; M. D. H. Parker, The Slave of Life ...
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... example Peter Iver Kaufman, Prayer, Despair, and Drama: Elizabethan Introspection (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996), 103–49; Huston Deihl, Staging Reform, Reforming the Stage: Protestantism and Popular Theater in Early Modern ...
... example Peter Iver Kaufman, Prayer, Despair, and Drama: Elizabethan Introspection (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996), 103–49; Huston Deihl, Staging Reform, Reforming the Stage: Protestantism and Popular Theater in Early Modern ...
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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