Shakespeare's Tragic SkepticismYale University Press, 1 בינו׳ 2002 - 283 עמודים 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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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 36
עמוד xv
... Iago , I have been interested further in the effect of uncertainty upon such polarities , however ; in the case of Othello and Iago , I have wanted to show the origin of Othello's " fall " in the dissolution of these fixities , a ...
... Iago , I have been interested further in the effect of uncertainty upon such polarities , however ; in the case of Othello and Iago , I have wanted to show the origin of Othello's " fall " in the dissolution of these fixities , a ...
עמוד 1
... Iago to wear his heart upon his sleeve for daws to peck at , and maybe , like Iago , he really has no heart . What he is " trying to say " in his plays is hardly distinguishable in the chorus of ideas that his poetry and dra- matic ...
... Iago to wear his heart upon his sleeve for daws to peck at , and maybe , like Iago , he really has no heart . What he is " trying to say " in his plays is hardly distinguishable in the chorus of ideas that his poetry and dra- matic ...
עמוד 3
... Iago . Although honest is also applied to someone like Desdemona — to mean female chastity as well as truthfulness - William Empson , who counted fifty - two occurrences of the word or its cognates in Othello , also pointed out years ...
... Iago . Although honest is also applied to someone like Desdemona — to mean female chastity as well as truthfulness - William Empson , who counted fifty - two occurrences of the word or its cognates in Othello , also pointed out years ...
עמוד 4
... Iago , who , unlike Othello , has never believed or loved , and whose character belongs to the genre of comedy . That ideas contend with one another in Shakespeare's writ- ing is a quality he shares with the skeptic near - contemporary ...
... Iago , who , unlike Othello , has never believed or loved , and whose character belongs to the genre of comedy . That ideas contend with one another in Shakespeare's writ- ing is a quality he shares with the skeptic near - contemporary ...
עמוד 18
... influence from the cur- rents of the air he breathed as he wrote his plays and created a wicked Richard III or a Claudius , an Iago , an Edmund , or a Mac- beth , in all of whom Machiavelli's ideas about politic 18 Introduction.
... influence from the cur- rents of the air he breathed as he wrote his plays and created a wicked Richard III or a Claudius , an Iago , an Edmund , or a Mac- beth , in all of whom Machiavelli's ideas about politic 18 Introduction.
תוכן
Hamlet Revenge | 29 |
Othellos Jealousy | 80 |
Unaccommodated Lear | 138 |
Macbeths Deeds | 191 |
The Roman Frame | 241 |
Selected Bibliography | 279 |
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