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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... true and important that seems not to have been said before . As for the inevitable dependen- cies and derivations , everyone who has ever written about Shake- speare knows that it is really not possible to acknowledge fully the diverse ...
... true and important that seems not to have been said before . As for the inevitable dependen- cies and derivations , everyone who has ever written about Shake- speare knows that it is really not possible to acknowledge fully the diverse ...
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... true feelings , if he has any , are disguised rather than evident . But a further irony may be suggested by the word's meaning as descriptive of a no- nonsense speaker who dispenses with exalted beliefs and declines to differentiate ...
... true feelings , if he has any , are disguised rather than evident . But a further irony may be suggested by the word's meaning as descriptive of a no- nonsense speaker who dispenses with exalted beliefs and declines to differentiate ...
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... true to the portent of this particular night is the later description by Lennox and Ross of the hours that followed when the earth was " feverous and did shake , " and " By th ' clock ' tis day / And yet dark night strangles the ...
... true to the portent of this particular night is the later description by Lennox and Ross of the hours that followed when the earth was " feverous and did shake , " and " By th ' clock ' tis day / And yet dark night strangles the ...
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... true that though religious faith was more in- tense than it had been for centuries , this faith had the daunting task of keeping at bay the devastating idea that God did not exist at all . The charge of skepticism was everyone's term of ...
... true that though religious faith was more in- tense than it had been for centuries , this faith had the daunting task of keeping at bay the devastating idea that God did not exist at all . The charge of skepticism was everyone's term of ...
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... true interpretations of Scripture , as the Re- formers were saying . But the Protestant leaders wrote tracts attack- ing the skepticism of Rome . And the Catholic Church said that the Reformers were skeptics in disguise because they ...
... true interpretations of Scripture , as the Re- formers were saying . But the Protestant leaders wrote tracts attack- ing the skepticism of Rome . And the Catholic Church said that the Reformers were skeptics in disguise because they ...
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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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