Hamlet, Protestantism, and the Mourning of Contingency: Not to beAshgate, 2006 - 246 Seiten 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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... playwrights ] , occupied in writing something else than appears in the literal actions and characters whom he manipulates . " Moreover , ... [ i ] t is possible that what distinguishes poetic drama from prosaic drama is a kind of ...
... playwrights ] , occupied in writing something else than appears in the literal actions and characters whom he manipulates . " Moreover , ... [ i ] t is possible that what distinguishes poetic drama from prosaic drama is a kind of ...
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... playwright's other tragic and historic characters . A long time ago V. K. Whitaker contended that Hamlet was out of step with other Shakespeare plays , which emphasize the importance of moral choice and of subjecting passion to reason ...
... playwright's other tragic and historic characters . A long time ago V. K. Whitaker contended that Hamlet was out of step with other Shakespeare plays , which emphasize the importance of moral choice and of subjecting passion to reason ...
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... playwright and director Hamlet himself - must defer to the actor , and should the actor decide to disrupt the play , as Hamlet worries the clowns might do , the playwright / director must stand in impotent disappointment . Ultimately ...
... playwright and director Hamlet himself - must defer to the actor , and should the actor decide to disrupt the play , as Hamlet worries the clowns might do , the playwright / director must stand in impotent disappointment . Ultimately ...
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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 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Hamlet, Protestantism, and the Mourning of Contingency: Not to Be Professor John E. Curran Jr Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2013 |
Hamlet, Protestantism, and the Mourning of Contingency: Not to Be John E. Curran Jr Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2016 |
Hamlet, Protestantism, and the Mourning of Contingency: Not to Be John E. Curran Jr Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2016 |
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