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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... come upon a denial of denial itself . The result is a contest of feelings and ideas . Contradicting effects come into view as we discover the theatricality of life in Hamlet , epistemological anguish in Othello , the view that man is a ...
... come upon a denial of denial itself . The result is a contest of feelings and ideas . Contradicting effects come into view as we discover the theatricality of life in Hamlet , epistemological anguish in Othello , the view that man is a ...
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... come in Bradley's wake , he himself admitted that this idea " was an exaggeration of a vital truth " because " it is a tragic fact " that " men may start a course of events but can neither calculate or control it . " Bradley understood ...
... come in Bradley's wake , he himself admitted that this idea " was an exaggeration of a vital truth " because " it is a tragic fact " that " men may start a course of events but can neither calculate or control it . " Bradley understood ...
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... come down on any conclusion without allowing for the possibility of its oppo- site . It is that representative skeptic method of balancing opposing views which was to be inherited from Montaigne by Pierre Bayle , who , at the end of the ...
... come down on any conclusion without allowing for the possibility of its oppo- site . It is that representative skeptic method of balancing opposing views which was to be inherited from Montaigne by Pierre Bayle , who , at the end of the ...
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... come from ? I believe that the relation of contemporary economic and social turmoil to skep- ticism about personal definition is salient in King Lear . Othello may be said to take place in a Venice contemporary with the real Lon- don in ...
... come from ? I believe that the relation of contemporary economic and social turmoil to skep- ticism about personal definition is salient in King Lear . Othello may be said to take place in a Venice contemporary with the real Lon- don in ...
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... come to Denmark in due course , though it will take the whole length of the play for its full measure to arrive . Nature's disorders will be shown to correspond to human disorders . So the night passed on the battlements of Elsinore ...
... come to Denmark in due course , though it will take the whole length of the play for its full measure to arrive . Nature's disorders will be shown to correspond to human disorders . So the night passed on the battlements of Elsinore ...
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 |