Shakespeare's Tragic SkepticismYale University Press, 2002 M01 1 - 283 páginas Readers of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies have long noted the absence of readily explainable motivations for some of Shakespeare's greatest characters: why does Hamlet delay his revenge for so long? Why does King Lear choose to renounce his power? Why is Othello so vulnerable to Iago's malice? But while many critics have chosen to overlook these omissions or explain them away, Millicent Bell demonstrates that they are essential elements of Shakespeare's philosophy of doubt. Examining the major tragedies, Millicent Bell reveals the persistent strain of philosophical skepticism. Like his contemporary, Montaigne, Shakespeare repeatedly calls attention to the essential unknowability of our world. In a period of social, political, and religious upheaval, uncertainty hovered over matters great and small--the succession of the crown, the death of loved ones from plague, the failure of a harvest. Tumultuous social conditions raised ultimate questions for Shakespeare, Bell argues, and ultimately provoked in him a skepticism which casts shadows of existential doubt over his greatest masterpieces. |
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... character and the moral significance of behavior , or even about the discoverable links to one another of human events -these were not always sustained by the plays . I began to sus- pect , as some others have , that Shakespeare's was ...
... character and the moral significance of behavior , or even about the discoverable links to one another of human events -these were not always sustained by the plays . I began to sus- pect , as some others have , that Shakespeare's was ...
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... character , or in character issuing from action . " But un- like many less keenly observant critics who have come in Bradley's wake , he himself admitted that this idea " was an exaggeration of a vital truth " because " it is a tragic ...
... character , or in character issuing from action . " But un- like many less keenly observant critics who have come in Bradley's wake , he himself admitted that this idea " was an exaggeration of a vital truth " because " it is a tragic ...
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... characters will not stay within limits , " and " cause and effect do net work " ; the play manipulates the audi- ence to experience conflicted responses . I have also tried to speculate about the origins of the plays in what existed in ...
... characters will not stay within limits , " and " cause and effect do net work " ; the play manipulates the audi- ence to experience conflicted responses . I have also tried to speculate about the origins of the plays in what existed in ...
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... character so vivid that it survives all inconsistency and seems almost to require no proof of itself , I shall argue that the plays flout traditional ideas about human selfhood as a known and consistent quality by which a man or woman ...
... character so vivid that it survives all inconsistency and seems almost to require no proof of itself , I shall argue that the plays flout traditional ideas about human selfhood as a known and consistent quality by which a man or woman ...
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... characters . But the lago who is so cruelly contemptuous of those , like Othello , who think life is more than a shadow ... character belongs to the genre of comedy . That ideas contend with one another in Shakespeare's writ- ing is a ...
... characters . But the lago who is so cruelly contemptuous of those , like Othello , who think life is more than a shadow ... character belongs to the genre of comedy . That ideas contend with one another in Shakespeare's writ- ing is a ...
Contenido
Hamlet Revenge | 29 |
Othellos Jealousy | 80 |
Unaccommodated Lear | 138 |
Macbeths Deeds | 191 |
The Roman Frame | 241 |
Selected Bibliography | 279 |
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Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culture Stuart Clark Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |
Special Section, Shakespeare and Montaigne Revisited Graham Bradshaw,T. G. Bishop,Peter Holbrook Vista previa limitada - 2006 |