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
... minds that get around to the other side and see the moon's other face , where , until space travel , no crater had a name . I discovered that I wanted to show the prevailing importance in his greatest plays of a skepticism that has been ...
... minds that get around to the other side and see the moon's other face , where , until space travel , no crater had a name . I discovered that I wanted to show the prevailing importance in his greatest plays of a skepticism that has been ...
Pàgina xiii
... project themselves , for a mind like Shakespeare's , upon ultimate questions , and promote the response of skepticism - as well as the resistance to it . Like everyone writing about Shakespeare today , I have learned Preface xiii.
... project themselves , for a mind like Shakespeare's , upon ultimate questions , and promote the response of skepticism - as well as the resistance to it . Like everyone writing about Shakespeare today , I have learned Preface xiii.
Pàgina 4
... mind as much as Othello does . And this can be seen in the four great tragedies in which the will to belief in universal coherence and meaning struggles , often unsuccessfully , against skepticism . The title I finally settled on ...
... mind as much as Othello does . And this can be seen in the four great tragedies in which the will to belief in universal coherence and meaning struggles , often unsuccessfully , against skepticism . The title I finally settled on ...
Pàgina 5
... minds — put contrary views into combat to test their strength . His plays are never allegorical- they never dramatize directly the contest of ideas — yet in them ideas contend from line to line in the richest language the stage has ever ...
... minds — put contrary views into combat to test their strength . His plays are never allegorical- they never dramatize directly the contest of ideas — yet in them ideas contend from line to line in the richest language the stage has ever ...
Pàgina 8
... mind images of deadly fever and strangulation . Macbeth's setting of darkness lit by guttering lamps , of foul weather that hides the illuminations of sun , moon , and stars , of day turned into night , is not simply a poet's way with ...
... mind images of deadly fever and strangulation . Macbeth's setting of darkness lit by guttering lamps , of foul weather that hides the illuminations of sun , moon , and stars , of day turned into night , is not simply a poet's way with ...
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 |