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. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 39
עמוד x
... action go forward in these plays is a nostalgic attachment to those very convictions skepticism denies . In these dramatic explorations one can sometimes come upon a denial of denial itself . The result is a contest of feelings and ...
... action go forward in these plays is a nostalgic attachment to those very convictions skepticism denies . In these dramatic explorations one can sometimes come upon a denial of denial itself . The result is a contest of feelings and ...
עמוד xi
... action issu- ing from character , or in character issuing from action . " But un- like many less keenly observant critics who have come in Bradley's wake , he himself admitted that this idea " was an exaggeration of a vital truth ...
... action issu- ing from character , or in character issuing from action . " But un- like many less keenly observant critics who have come in Bradley's wake , he himself admitted that this idea " was an exaggeration of a vital truth ...
עמוד 2
... after all , it is only by believing in that logic that we are able to carry on in life . Yet significant gaps and paradoxes disrupt the sequences of action in these plays and bring such coherence and meaning into 2 Introduction.
... after all , it is only by believing in that logic that we are able to carry on in life . Yet significant gaps and paradoxes disrupt the sequences of action in these plays and bring such coherence and meaning into 2 Introduction.
עמוד 4
... action how like an angel , in apprehension how like a god " -is hardly himself to be identified with the most cynical and hateful of all his characters . But the lago who is so cruelly contemptuous of those , like Othello , who think ...
... action how like an angel , in apprehension how like a god " -is hardly himself to be identified with the most cynical and hateful of all his characters . But the lago who is so cruelly contemptuous of those , like Othello , who think ...
עמוד 5
... action and language of the plays he invites his audiences to question , from moment to moment , the inherited , standard truths of his time . He also allows his audiences to view fearfully the results of abandoning the prop of such ...
... action and language of the plays he invites his audiences to question , from moment to moment , the inherited , standard truths of his time . He also allows his audiences to view fearfully the results of abandoning the prop of such ...
תוכן
Hamlet Revenge | 29 |
Othellos Jealousy | 80 |
Unaccommodated Lear | 138 |
Macbeths Deeds | 191 |
The Roman Frame | 241 |
Selected Bibliography | 279 |
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