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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... language that actually present them- selves . But those plausible stories , those familiar ideas that reassur- ingly " make sense " of experience for the majority of mankind in each generation — especially ideas about the definition and ...
... language that actually present them- selves . But those plausible stories , those familiar ideas that reassur- ingly " make sense " of experience for the majority of mankind in each generation — especially ideas about the definition and ...
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... language and makes the audience " think in multiple dimensions . " Macbeth , Booth writes , is a play in which " finality is regularly unattainable , " and " characters will not stay within limits , " and " cause and effect do net work ...
... language and makes the audience " think in multiple dimensions . " Macbeth , Booth writes , is a play in which " finality is regularly unattainable , " and " characters will not stay within limits , " and " cause and effect do net work ...
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... language , though to none of them should my own sometimes dissenting readings be attributed . Speaking of editions , I should point out that though I have resorted to editions of Shakespeare that generally " modernize " his original ...
... language , though to none of them should my own sometimes dissenting readings be attributed . Speaking of editions , I should point out that though I have resorted to editions of Shakespeare that generally " modernize " his original ...
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... language the stage has ever known . Through the action and language of the plays he invites his audiences to question , from moment to moment , the inherited , standard truths of his time . He also allows his audiences to view fearfully ...
... language the stage has ever known . Through the action and language of the plays he invites his audiences to question , from moment to moment , the inherited , standard truths of his time . He also allows his audiences to view fearfully ...
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... language , particularly continuous patterns of imagery , tied things together . But Shakespeare does not discard the idea - basic to the way we strive to think about human life — that there are persons and there are events , and that ...
... language , particularly continuous patterns of imagery , tied things together . But Shakespeare does not discard the idea - basic to the way we strive to think about human life — that there are persons and there are events , and that ...
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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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