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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... plot of time by which events are linked together — a sequence and relation that makes rational sense of human experience — this , too , may not have seemed self - evident to Shakespeare either . His greatest plays seem to rely upon the ...
... plot of time by which events are linked together — a sequence and relation that makes rational sense of human experience — this , too , may not have seemed self - evident to Shakespeare either . His greatest plays seem to rely upon the ...
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... Plot in the autumn of 1605. Othello sees his wife's supposed betrayal as a time when there should be a huge eclipse Of sun and moon , and . . . th ' affrighted globe Should yawn at alteration . Such a sense of cosmic cause beyond ...
... Plot in the autumn of 1605. Othello sees his wife's supposed betrayal as a time when there should be a huge eclipse Of sun and moon , and . . . th ' affrighted globe Should yawn at alteration . Such a sense of cosmic cause beyond ...
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... plots had made matters easier to understand than the great playwright had done . The same critique and the same preference were declared by Tolstoy , when he wrote at the beginning of the twentieth century that Shakespeare had ...
... plots had made matters easier to understand than the great playwright had done . The same critique and the same preference were declared by Tolstoy , when he wrote at the beginning of the twentieth century that Shakespeare had ...
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... plot and make events inexplicable , and to deny the reliability of human impres- sions . He also lets us hold onto a sense of human individuality somehow independent of complete demonstration . In Othello , de- spite lago's irresistible ...
... plot and make events inexplicable , and to deny the reliability of human impres- sions . He also lets us hold onto a sense of human individuality somehow independent of complete demonstration . In Othello , de- spite lago's irresistible ...
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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 |