Hamlet’s Religions

Pastoral challenges prompted pietists among Elizabethan Catholics and Calvinists to commend what historians now call an inward turn whereby the faithful, in a sense, become their own confessors. This article suggests that spiritual exercises or soliloquies Shakespeare scripted for his Hamlet (and, l...

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Main Author: Peter Iver Kaufman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2011-09-01
Series:Religions
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/2/3/427/