Shakespeare's Tragic SkepticismYale University Press, 1. 1. 2002. - 283 страница 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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... feel that it overlooks the agon which makes for tragedy , the struggle for a selfhood that we witness not only in King Lear but in the other plays . I have remained impressed by Norman Rabkin's pioneering suggestion , in Shakespeare and ...
... feel that it overlooks the agon which makes for tragedy , the struggle for a selfhood that we witness not only in King Lear but in the other plays . I have remained impressed by Norman Rabkin's pioneering suggestion , in Shakespeare and ...
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... and the universe , I feel the diffidence Eliot urged one to have . I believe that the plays I am examining in this I book exhibit the effects of a potent philosophic skepticism verg- introduction: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth.
... and the universe , I feel the diffidence Eliot urged one to have . I believe that the plays I am examining in this I book exhibit the effects of a potent philosophic skepticism verg- introduction: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth.
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... feel be- tween my own doubting mood at the start of a new century and Shakespeare's own fin - de - siecle condition may be an illusion , just as the biases of earlier readers made them discover in Shakespeare their own confidence in a ...
... feel be- tween my own doubting mood at the start of a new century and Shakespeare's own fin - de - siecle condition may be an illusion , just as the biases of earlier readers made them discover in Shakespeare their own confidence in a ...
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... feel about them , and about ourselves — that we are some- how more than any of our conditions , more even than our acts , that ours is a potentiality which life will never completely exhaust . And yet this still leaves them — and us ...
... feel about them , and about ourselves — that we are some- how more than any of our conditions , more even than our acts , that ours is a potentiality which life will never completely exhaust . And yet this still leaves them — and us ...
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Hamlet Revenge | 29 |
Othellos Jealousy | 80 |
Unaccommodated Lear | 138 |
Macbeths Deeds | 191 |
The Roman Frame | 241 |
Selected Bibliography | 279 |
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