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Dreaming of God: a critical re-evaluation of Shakespeare's theological context, with particular reference to 'Hamlet' by Down, Therese Marie

“…Some detect in the play a Montaignian influence to Lucretian atomism or Pyrrhonic Scepticism, while Calvinist readings emphasise Shakespeare’s disaffection for orthodox, predestination doctrine which damns Claudius and dooms Hamlet. …”
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The pragmatics of liturgical discourse: with special reference to English Reformed worship and the preformative language doxology of Jean Ladrière by Hilborn, D.

“…Close pragmatic study of this corpus, and of its Calvinist precedents, confirms that English Reformed worship has allowed an over-informative 'didactic monologism' to eclipse more directly participative and potentially 'eventful' historic forms. …”
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The Maitland quarto: a new edition of Cambridge, Magdalene college, Pepys library MS 1408 by Martin, Joanna M.

“…Amongst these we find the earliest example of a Country House poem from the British Isles, a Sapphic love poem, and examples of Calvinist verse. The present edition makes all of the Maitland Quarto’s texts available for the first time in a critical edition with full interpretative apparatus and glossary. …”
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'Man is not truly one, but truly two': a positive reading of Robert Louis Stevenson's double by Garland, Kate E.

“…Lastly, I shall reflect upon my endeavours suggesting that a feature length study of Stevenson’s religious thought, rendered into a Calvinist anthropology of his writings, would greatly benefit Stevenson studies.…”
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