Seeming knowledge : Shakespeare and skeptical faith
Revisits the question of Shakespeare and religion by focusing on the conjunction of faith and scepticism in his writing. The recognition of the history of faith and scepticism in the sixteenth century illuminates a tradition that Shakespeare inherited and represented more subtly and effectively than any other writer of his generation.
xvii, 348 pages ; 24 cm.
9781932792959, 1932792953
137305971
Skepticism and suspicion in sixteenth-century England
Comic faith
Tragic grace
History and guilt
Politics
Ethics
Esthetics, epistemology, ontology
Shakespeare and the French epistemologists