Shakespeare's Tragic SkepticismYale University Press, 01/10/2008 - 304 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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... first prompted to write this study of Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra by the realization that much previous discussion tended to confine and reduce their variousness and contradictions.There ...
... first prompted to write this study of Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra by the realization that much previous discussion tended to confine and reduce their variousness and contradictions.There ...
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... first published, yet his book was placed on the Indexin ,as Sebond's writing hadbeenahundred yearsbefore. There is no reason to suspect that Montaigne's faith was not sincere—perhaps even passionate—precisely because it existed ...
... first published, yet his book was placed on the Indexin ,as Sebond's writing hadbeenahundred yearsbefore. There is no reason to suspect that Montaigne's faith was not sincere—perhaps even passionate—precisely because it existed ...
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... first and sec- ondarycauses. Newton's Principia of is the culmination of the idea that not only is the universe knowable but that what happens in it can be explained by natural law. Yet at the end of the sixteenth century this ...
... first and sec- ondarycauses. Newton's Principia of is the culmination of the idea that not only is the universe knowable but that what happens in it can be explained by natural law. Yet at the end of the sixteenth century this ...
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... first perswasion. And that's the reason why children, those of the common sort,women, and sicke-folke,are so subject to be mis-led, and so easie to swallow gudgeons. Yet on the other side, it is a sottish presumption to dis- daine and ...
... first perswasion. And that's the reason why children, those of the common sort,women, and sicke-folke,are so subject to be mis-led, and so easie to swallow gudgeons. Yet on the other side, it is a sottish presumption to dis- daine and ...
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... first published poem,Venus andAdonis, and thenLu- crece, to this same patron whowas, possibly, also the ''Mr.W.H'' to whom the poet dedicated his Sonnets. The alternate candidate for the honor of the Sonnets dedication has been, of ...
... first published poem,Venus andAdonis, and thenLu- crece, to this same patron whowas, possibly, also the ''Mr.W.H'' to whom the poet dedicated his Sonnets. The alternate candidate for the honor of the Sonnets dedication has been, of ...
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2 Othellos Jealousy | |
3 Unaccommodated Lear | |
4 Macbeths Deeds | |
The Roman Frame | |
Selected Bibliography | |
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