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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... universal divine governance but also of the humanist faith in the heroic self . Jonathan Dolliver , in Radical Tragedy : Religion , Ideol- ogy , and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare's Contemporaries ( 1984 ) , said that the play ...
... universal divine governance but also of the humanist faith in the heroic self . Jonathan Dolliver , in Radical Tragedy : Religion , Ideol- ogy , and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare's Contemporaries ( 1984 ) , said that the play ...
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... universal coherence and meaning struggles , often unsuccessfully , against skepticism . The title I finally settled on , Shakespeare's Tragic Skepticism , stresses more accurately the way tragedy results from skeptic disillusion ...
... universal coherence and meaning struggles , often unsuccessfully , against skepticism . The title I finally settled on , Shakespeare's Tragic Skepticism , stresses more accurately the way tragedy results from skeptic disillusion ...
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... universal than previously . To begin with , traditional ideas about an inexplicable correspondence between disturbances in the human and natural worlds seemed confirmed by contemporary phenomena to an ex- traordinary degree . Such ...
... universal than previously . To begin with , traditional ideas about an inexplicable correspondence between disturbances in the human and natural worlds seemed confirmed by contemporary phenomena to an ex- traordinary degree . Such ...
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... universal disturbance . It would be readily felt that the storms that rage in Julius Caesar or King Lear are not merely poetic metaphor of social and po- litical turmoil but literal symptoms of discord and disorder in all things . Not ...
... universal disturbance . It would be readily felt that the storms that rage in Julius Caesar or King Lear are not merely poetic metaphor of social and po- litical turmoil but literal symptoms of discord and disorder in all things . Not ...
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... universal guide . In England the religion endorsed by the authority of the state in Henry VIII's time began by being Ro- man Catholic but went to a Catholicism in which the king was the head of the church yet persecuted extreme ...
... universal guide . In England the religion endorsed by the authority of the state in Henry VIII's time began by being Ro- man Catholic but went to a Catholicism in which the king was the head of the church yet persecuted extreme ...
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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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