Shakespeare's Tragic SkepticismYale University Press, 1.01.2002 г. - 283 страници 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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... suggested , a species of " complementarity " analogous to the state of matter de- scribed by the physicist Oppenheimer . Rabkin observed : " What is problematic in Hamlet is not accidental but rather lies at the cen- ter of ...
... suggested , a species of " complementarity " analogous to the state of matter de- scribed by the physicist Oppenheimer . Rabkin observed : " What is problematic in Hamlet is not accidental but rather lies at the cen- ter of ...
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... suggest , be so elusive and variable as to bring its very existence into question . Though Shakespeare makes character so vivid that it survives all inconsistency and seems almost to require no proof of itself , I shall argue that the ...
... suggest , be so elusive and variable as to bring its very existence into question . Though Shakespeare makes character so vivid that it survives all inconsistency and seems almost to require no proof of itself , I shall argue that the ...
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... suggested by the word's meaning as descriptive of a no- nonsense speaker who dispenses with exalted beliefs and declines to differentiate between seeming and being . In a word , a skeptic . Shakespeare , of course , the creator of ...
... suggested by the word's meaning as descriptive of a no- nonsense speaker who dispenses with exalted beliefs and declines to differentiate between seeming and being . In a word , a skeptic . Shakespeare , of course , the creator of ...
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... century , made his famous en- cyclopedic dictionary a dramatization of the " method of doubt , " in which one opinion was posed against another . I am suggest- ing that Shakespeare's thought , if we can assert anything 4 Introduction.
... century , made his famous en- cyclopedic dictionary a dramatization of the " method of doubt , " in which one opinion was posed against another . I am suggest- ing that Shakespeare's thought , if we can assert anything 4 Introduction.
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... suggests to Horatio that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in his philosophy . On the other side there was unredeemable doubt . Atheism was almost inadmissible in Shakespeare's day , though some accused ...
... suggests to Horatio that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in his philosophy . On the other side there was unredeemable doubt . Atheism was almost inadmissible in Shakespeare's day , though some accused ...
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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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