Shakespeare's Tragic SkepticismYale University Press, 2002 M01 1 - 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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... scene in which thought and life interacted and reflected one another , there hung a doubt of the human capacity to perceive life truly . This doubt is expressed with a curious precision in Othello but could also have been heard in ...
... scene in which thought and life interacted and reflected one another , there hung a doubt of the human capacity to perceive life truly . This doubt is expressed with a curious precision in Othello but could also have been heard in ...
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... scene . But this mood is temporary . Ahead lie all the deaths , none of which is the consequence of any deliberated human plan the deaths not only of Gertrude and Claudius , but of Polonius and Laertes and Ophelia , and of Hamlet ...
... scene . But this mood is temporary . Ahead lie all the deaths , none of which is the consequence of any deliberated human plan the deaths not only of Gertrude and Claudius , but of Polonius and Laertes and Ophelia , and of Hamlet ...
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... scene in Macbeth . These plays that are the product of one of the greatest of individual imagina- tions are less personal than we have supposed . The master playwright was probably more accommodating to the ideas Introduction 25.
... scene in Macbeth . These plays that are the product of one of the greatest of individual imagina- tions are less personal than we have supposed . The master playwright was probably more accommodating to the ideas Introduction 25.
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... scene of the prodigies that had preceded Julius's assassination is a reference that the audience must have picked up right away to similar descriptions in the earlier play . When Polo- nius boasts that in a college production he " did ...
... scene of the prodigies that had preceded Julius's assassination is a reference that the audience must have picked up right away to similar descriptions in the earlier play . When Polo- nius boasts that in a college production he " did ...
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Contenido
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 Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |
Special Section, Shakespeare and Montaigne Revisited Graham Bradshaw,T. G. Bishop,Peter Holbrook Vista previa limitada - 2006 |