Hamlet, Protestantism, and the Mourning of Contingency: Not to beAshgate, 2006 - 246 sider 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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... happen ; what else can always happen ? Why , for example , might it not happen that he avoids being the committer of meaningless and common revenge ? This can now be viewed as only one possible outcome among many - we see the ...
... happen ; what else can always happen ? Why , for example , might it not happen that he avoids being the committer of meaningless and common revenge ? This can now be viewed as only one possible outcome among many - we see the ...
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... happen . In a more conspicuous use of the revenge spirit , the supernatural frame of The Spanish Tragedy establishes ... happened already . When periodically Andrea complains that events , like the death of his friend Horatio , would ...
... happen . In a more conspicuous use of the revenge spirit , the supernatural frame of The Spanish Tragedy establishes ... happened already . When periodically Andrea complains that events , like the death of his friend Horatio , would ...
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... happen . Hamlet assumes that the likelihood of Claudius going to heaven is a direct function of the quality of his engagement in an activity with some " relish of salvation in't " ( III.iii.92 ) . Claudius increases his chances of going ...
... happen . Hamlet assumes that the likelihood of Claudius going to heaven is a direct function of the quality of his engagement in an activity with some " relish of salvation in't " ( III.iii.92 ) . Claudius increases his chances of going ...
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The Be the Eucharist and the Logic of Protestantism | 18 |
Purgatory and the Value of Time | 65 |
The Theater of Merit | 103 |
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