Pub Date : 2020-07-21DOI: 10.12987/YALE/9780300247817.003.0008
Peter Lake
This chapter focuses on the action of William Shakespeare's plays and explains in detail how various concerns, points of references, and sets of narrative expectation are brought together and resolved. It highlights the depiction of Hamlet's spiritual crisis and his obsession over the prospect of suicide. It puzzles over the extent and the spiritual and epistemological consequences of Hamlet's own madness or melancholy, analysing whether he is the subject of demonically induced delusions and lies. The chapter looks into the term “atheist” in its Elizabethan sense, which is someone who is acting, or trying to act, as though God, the soul and the afterlife do not exist. It also compares Hamlet's soliloquies to someone talking like an atheist but acting like a Christian.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-21DOI: 10.12987/9780300256703-009
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This chapter argues that through the figure of the ghost, William Shakespeare deliberately inserted the issue of confessional politics into his plays. It explains Hamlet's relation to Catholicism and whether he, by the end of the play, has been converted or even saved by Christianity. It also points out how Hamlet is suffused throughout with the language, practices and images of the old religion. Within the Catholic context evoked so carefully by the play, the chapter explores Hamlet that comes across as an orthodox believer. It describes Hamlet's belief in purgatory, which has been confirmed or strengthened by his encounter with the ghost and experiences the dread of something after life.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-21DOI: 10.12987/9780300256703-010
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