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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... nature of causation would certainly have been felt by anyone who chose to think about such things ab- stractly . Tumultuous social condi- tions raised ultimate questions for Shakespeare , Bell argues , and ultimately provoked in him a ...
... nature of causation would certainly have been felt by anyone who chose to think about such things ab- stractly . Tumultuous social condi- tions raised ultimate questions for Shakespeare , Bell argues , and ultimately provoked in him a ...
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... Gods ( 1966 ) buried the idea that King Lear was " optimistically Christian . " Nicholas Brooke , in his 1979 edition of King Lear , observed that in this play " all moral structures , whether of natural order Preface xi.
... Gods ( 1966 ) buried the idea that King Lear was " optimistically Christian . " Nicholas Brooke , in his 1979 edition of King Lear , observed that in this play " all moral structures , whether of natural order Preface xi.
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Millicent Bell. play " all moral structures , whether of natural order or Christian redemption , are invalidated by the facts of experience . " Going fur- ther in the next decades , a new English school of " cultural material- soon ...
Millicent Bell. play " all moral structures , whether of natural order or Christian redemption , are invalidated by the facts of experience . " Going fur- ther in the next decades , a new English school of " cultural material- soon ...
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... nature of things - though the New Historicist Stephen Greenblatt probably would deny that there is any possible way of standing entirely " outside . " Shakespeare , one might almost propose , is an early - seventeenth century New ...
... nature of things - though the New Historicist Stephen Greenblatt probably would deny that there is any possible way of standing entirely " outside . " Shakespeare , one might almost propose , is an early - seventeenth century New ...
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... natural worlds seemed confirmed by contemporary phenomena to an ex- traordinary degree . Such natural disasters as the unusually frequent crop failures that caused universal distress in the 1590s anticipated the development of a world ...
... natural worlds seemed confirmed by contemporary phenomena to an ex- traordinary degree . Such natural disasters as the unusually frequent crop failures that caused universal distress in the 1590s anticipated the development of a world ...
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Hamlet Revenge | 29 |
Othellos Jealousy | 80 |
Unaccommodated Lear | 138 |
Macbeths Deeds | 191 |
The Roman Frame | 241 |
Selected Bibliography | 279 |
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