Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/IzPb6KB Hamlet, Protestantism, and the Mourning of Contingency Not to Be By: John E. Curran Jr Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780754654360, 0754654362 eText ISBN: 9781317124023, 1317124022 Edition: 1st Copyright year: 2006 Format: EPUB Available from $ 23.18 USD SKU 9781317124023R90 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.
