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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... once thought to be God - implanted and unalterable , might , these plays sometimes suggest , be so elusive and variable as to bring its very existence into question . Though Shakespeare makes character so vivid that it survives all ...
... once thought to be God - implanted and unalterable , might , these plays sometimes suggest , be so elusive and variable as to bring its very existence into question . Though Shakespeare makes character so vivid that it survives all ...
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... once gave suck may not have seemed a puzzle to early audiences ; only half of London's children survived into adulthood . The sudden death of old as well as young was a constant reminder of the inexplicable . In 1603 , around the time ...
... once gave suck may not have seemed a puzzle to early audiences ; only half of London's children survived into adulthood . The sudden death of old as well as young was a constant reminder of the inexplicable . In 1603 , around the time ...
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... once defined what one was and how one would live one's life had so thoroughly disappeared that there was a changeover in the traditional social categories that contain the self , and men and women found themselves behaving in new roles ...
... once defined what one was and how one would live one's life had so thoroughly disappeared that there was a changeover in the traditional social categories that contain the self , and men and women found themselves behaving in new roles ...
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... once , as when Macbeth says that he fears Banquo , and observes , " My genius is rebuked , as it is said , / Mark Antony's was by Caesar " — referring to a remark in Antony and Cleopatra . This play may have been completed shortly after ...
... once , as when Macbeth says that he fears Banquo , and observes , " My genius is rebuked , as it is said , / Mark Antony's was by Caesar " — referring to a remark in Antony and Cleopatra . This play may have been completed shortly after ...
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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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