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 xiii
... witch mania , racial encounters promoted by travel and urbanism , or in- creasing tensions between the old and the young . These specific so- cial matters project themselves , for a mind like Shakespeare's , upon ultimate questions ...
... witch mania , racial encounters promoted by travel and urbanism , or in- creasing tensions between the old and the young . These specific so- cial matters project themselves , for a mind like Shakespeare's , upon ultimate questions ...
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... witches say in Macbeth , both " lost and won . " And in this way Shakespeare stands outside any system that presumes the imperatives of a culture to be inherent in the nature of things - though the New Historicist Stephen Greenblatt ...
... witches say in Macbeth , both " lost and won . " And in this way Shakespeare stands outside any system that presumes the imperatives of a culture to be inherent in the nature of things - though the New Historicist Stephen Greenblatt ...
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... witches and employed skeptical arguments to demolish the dogmatism of the critics of the witch belief . Even Montaigne's distinguished French contemporary , the political philosopher and reputed skeptic Jean Bodin , believed in sorcery ...
... witches and employed skeptical arguments to demolish the dogmatism of the critics of the witch belief . Even Montaigne's distinguished French contemporary , the political philosopher and reputed skeptic Jean Bodin , believed in sorcery ...
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... witches to the skeptical mind is to be explained by what the witches betoken — that the cosmos and the social world were not so obviously the expression of a rule of universal order . The witchcraft trials of the day , which Shakespeare ...
... witches to the skeptical mind is to be explained by what the witches betoken — that the cosmos and the social world were not so obviously the expression of a rule of universal order . The witchcraft trials of the day , which Shakespeare ...
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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 |