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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Millicent Bell. For all my loves: Gene, Tony, Meg, Kiki, Tim, Michael, Georgia, Rebecca, Alex Contents introduction Preface ix Hamlet , Othello , King Lear.
Millicent Bell. For all my loves: Gene, Tony, Meg, Kiki, Tim, Michael, Georgia, Rebecca, Alex Contents introduction Preface ix Hamlet , Othello , King Lear.
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Millicent Bell. Contents introduction Preface ix Hamlet , Othello , King Lear , and Macbeth I one Hamlet , Revenge ! 29 two Othello's Jealousy 80 Preface Shakespeare's Tragic Skepticism has an ambitious aim. In writing. three ...
Millicent Bell. Contents introduction Preface ix Hamlet , Othello , King Lear , and Macbeth I one Hamlet , Revenge ! 29 two Othello's Jealousy 80 Preface Shakespeare's Tragic Skepticism has an ambitious aim. In writing. three ...
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... effects come into view as we discover the theatricality of life in Hamlet , epistemological anguish in Othello , the view that man is a stripped animal in Lear , the collapse of the sense of time's sequential order in X Preface.
... effects come into view as we discover the theatricality of life in Hamlet , epistemological anguish in Othello , the view that man is a stripped animal in Lear , the collapse of the sense of time's sequential order in X Preface.
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... Hamlet is not accidental but rather lies at the cen- ter of [ Shakespeare's ] intention . . . . It is critical fideism [ or ] . . . ' bardolatry ' to assume that every ' ambiguity ' we can find is a mark of the poet's genius . . . . But ...
... Hamlet is not accidental but rather lies at the cen- ter of [ Shakespeare's ] intention . . . . It is critical fideism [ or ] . . . ' bardolatry ' to assume that every ' ambiguity ' we can find is a mark of the poet's genius . . . . But ...
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... Hamlet's statement that he has " that within which passeth show ” has been claimed by some mod- ern scholars who attribute to Shakespeare and the Elizabethan son- neteers the invention of the modern psyche . But this view is con- tested ...
... Hamlet's statement that he has " that within which passeth show ” has been claimed by some mod- ern scholars who attribute to Shakespeare and the Elizabethan son- neteers the invention of the modern psyche . But this view is con- tested ...
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2 Othellos Jealousy | 80 |
3 Unaccommodated Lear | 138 |
4 Macbeths Deeds | 191 |
The Roman Frame | 241 |
Selected Bibliography | 279 |
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