Shakespeare's Tragic SkepticismYale University Press, 1 de gen. 2002 - 283 pàgines 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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Pàgina x
... 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.
Pàgina xiii
... effect do net work " ; the play manipulates the audi- ence to experience conflicted responses . I have also tried to speculate about the origins of the plays in what existed in Shakespeare's outer world . In a period of unprece- dented ...
... effect do net work " ; the play manipulates the audi- ence to experience conflicted responses . I have also tried to speculate about the origins of the plays in what existed in Shakespeare's outer world . In a period of unprece- dented ...
Pàgina xv
... effect of a skeptic view that is imposed upon idealism only at a terrible cost and after awful struggle . My procedure has been a " close reading " of Shakespeare's words and of the succession of scenic effects , the accumulations and ...
... effect of a skeptic view that is imposed upon idealism only at a terrible cost and after awful struggle . My procedure has been a " close reading " of Shakespeare's words and of the succession of scenic effects , the accumulations and ...
Pàgina 1
... 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.
... 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.
Pàgina 2
Millicent Bell. book exhibit the effects of a potent philosophic skepticism verg- ing upon nihilism . Yet criticism always simplifies . It is always an expression of the critic's own bias . Any correspondence I feel be- tween my own ...
Millicent Bell. book exhibit the effects of a potent philosophic skepticism verg- ing upon nihilism . Yet criticism always simplifies . It is always an expression of the critic's own bias . Any correspondence I feel be- tween my own ...
Continguts
Hamlet Revenge | 29 |
Othellos Jealousy | 80 |
Unaccommodated Lear | 138 |
Macbeths Deeds | 191 |
The Roman Frame | 241 |
Selected Bibliography | 279 |
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Referències a aquest llibre
Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culture Stuart Clark Previsualització no disponible - 2007 |
Special Section, Shakespeare and Montaigne Revisited Graham Bradshaw,T. G. Bishop,Peter Holbrook Previsualització limitada - 2006 |