Shakespeare's Tragic SkepticismYale University Press, 1. 1. 2002 - 283 strán (strany) 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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... lago's own skepticism about the self . And I have insisted more than Bradshaw on the " tragic " element that I want to recognize in my own title - the effect of a skeptic view that is imposed upon idealism only at a terrible cost and ...
... lago's own skepticism about the self . And I have insisted more than Bradshaw on the " tragic " element that I want to recognize in my own title - the effect of a skeptic view that is imposed upon idealism only at a terrible cost and ...
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... lago is mistakenly called honest by those , like Othello , who trust him to tell the truth , and the term grows more and more ironic as it is applied to a man who lies continually and whose true feelings , if he has any , are disguised ...
... lago is mistakenly called honest by those , like Othello , who trust him to tell the truth , and the term grows more and more ironic as it is applied to a man who lies continually and whose true feelings , if he has any , are disguised ...
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... lago who is so cruelly contemptuous of those , like Othello , who think life is more than a shadow - play of illusions , expresses a part of Shakespeare's mind as much as Othello does . And this can be seen in the four great tragedies ...
... lago who is so cruelly contemptuous of those , like Othello , who think life is more than a shadow - play of illusions , expresses a part of Shakespeare's mind as much as Othello does . And this can be seen in the four great tragedies ...
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... lago's insistence that " " Pis in ourselves that we are thus or thus . . . . The power and cor- rigible authority of this lies in our wills . " Calvin called the idea that " all the evils wherewith the stars threaten us do proceed from ...
... lago's insistence that " " Pis in ourselves that we are thus or thus . . . . The power and cor- rigible authority of this lies in our wills . " Calvin called the idea that " all the evils wherewith the stars threaten us do proceed from ...
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... " weakened and spoiled " his original stories by leaving his charac- ters without motive . Hamlet's delay in executing revenge ; Othello's exaggerated vulnerability to suggestion and lago's malice ; Lear's foolish 22 Introduction.
... " weakened and spoiled " his original stories by leaving his charac- ters without motive . Hamlet's delay in executing revenge ; Othello's exaggerated vulnerability to suggestion and lago's malice ; Lear's foolish 22 Introduction.
Obsah
Hamlet Revenge | 29 |
Othellos Jealousy | 80 |
Unaccommodated Lear | 138 |
Macbeths Deeds | 191 |
The Roman Frame | 241 |
Selected Bibliography | 279 |
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