Shakespeare's Tragic SkepticismYale University Press, 01/01/2002 - 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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... already impressed by the obliquity and mystery of life rather than by its evident mean- ingfulness . Was Shakespeare's mind so attracted ? Perhaps we can only guess about his thoughts about this current intellectual topic , thoughts ...
... already impressed by the obliquity and mystery of life rather than by its evident mean- ingfulness . Was Shakespeare's mind so attracted ? Perhaps we can only guess about his thoughts about this current intellectual topic , thoughts ...
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... already been assimilated by Montaigne . Those meetings at the Mermaid Tav- ern in which Shakespeare lifted a tankard with Ben Jonson and others , including Raleigh , may be only legend , but Shakespeare could have seen Raleigh's ...
... already been assimilated by Montaigne . Those meetings at the Mermaid Tav- ern in which Shakespeare lifted a tankard with Ben Jonson and others , including Raleigh , may be only legend , but Shakespeare could have seen Raleigh's ...
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... already noticed by his contemporaries - or , at least by so percep- tive a friendly rival as this fellow - dramatist . But there seems not to have been any more specific notice of the relation of Shake- speare and Montaigne until the ...
... already noticed by his contemporaries - or , at least by so percep- tive a friendly rival as this fellow - dramatist . But there seems not to have been any more specific notice of the relation of Shake- speare and Montaigne until the ...
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... already unresolvable in Julius Caesar and continues to be a difficult issue in what he wrote during the next few years . It is an issue that receives its most ironic treatment in Antony and Cleo- patra . The dispersed viewpoint that is ...
... already unresolvable in Julius Caesar and continues to be a difficult issue in what he wrote during the next few years . It is an issue that receives its most ironic treatment in Antony and Cleo- patra . The dispersed viewpoint that is ...
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Índice
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 Pré-visualização indisponível - 2007 |
Special Section, Shakespeare and Montaigne Revisited Graham Bradshaw,T. G. Bishop,Peter Holbrook Pré-visualização limitada - 2006 |