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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... relation to his sources often itself illustrated the problem as it was duplicated for the playwright in the creation of his plays . My perception that this relation was often an ironic one had been strengthened when I read Howard ...
... relation to his sources often itself illustrated the problem as it was duplicated for the playwright in the creation of his plays . My perception that this relation was often an ironic one had been strengthened when I read Howard ...
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... relations , can be glimpsed in each play . One cannot write about Shakespeare's great tragedies without taking account of the presence of such im- mediate historic realities as threats against the crown , the appear- ance of a new class ...
... relations , can be glimpsed in each play . One cannot write about Shakespeare's great tragedies without taking account of the presence of such im- mediate historic realities as threats against the crown , the appear- ance of a new class ...
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... relation that makes rational sense of human experience — this , too , may not have seemed self - evident to Shakespeare either . His greatest plays seem to rely upon the commonsense logic that connects what happens with causes in ...
... relation that makes rational sense of human experience — this , too , may not have seemed self - evident to Shakespeare either . His greatest plays seem to rely upon the commonsense logic that connects what happens with causes in ...
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... 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 which social identities might ...
... 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 which social identities might ...
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... relation to the cir- cumstances of a new age of social mobility . The anxiety produced by the tensions of Elizabethan - Jacobean power struggles has some- thing to do with Macbeth's lost confidence in the progress of events as a ...
... relation to the cir- cumstances of a new age of social mobility . The anxiety produced by the tensions of Elizabethan - Jacobean power struggles has some- thing to do with Macbeth's lost confidence in the progress of events as 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 |