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 33
עמוד 7
Millicent Bell. persons — died of the plague . The theaters were closed from mid- April of that year to the following ... theater audience of the solar and lunar eclipses of 1589-1601 . Maybe G. R. Hibbard , the excellent Oxford editor ...
Millicent Bell. persons — died of the plague . The theaters were closed from mid- April of that year to the following ... theater audience of the solar and lunar eclipses of 1589-1601 . Maybe G. R. Hibbard , the excellent Oxford editor ...
עמוד 10
... theater industry of a London seeth- ing with moneymaking . There was a febrile " culture of consump- tion " which attracted the newly prosperous from the remotest parts of the land to the great city that was the source of political and ...
... theater industry of a London seeth- ing with moneymaking . There was a febrile " culture of consump- tion " which attracted the newly prosperous from the remotest parts of the land to the great city that was the source of political and ...
עמוד 18
... theater , writers and theater people and intellectual young aristocrats often to be caught , like Prince Ham- let , with a book in hand , but often eagerly reading a new work even before the printer got it . It is likely that ...
... theater , writers and theater people and intellectual young aristocrats often to be caught , like Prince Ham- let , with a book in hand , but often eagerly reading a new work even before the printer got it . It is likely that ...
עמוד 19
... theater colleagues , Heminges and Condell , dedicated their posthumous Folio edition of his works . Pembroke , as well , might have connected Shakespeare to Florio . The poet- playwright Samuel Daniel was , as it happens , one of those ...
... theater colleagues , Heminges and Condell , dedicated their posthumous Folio edition of his works . Pembroke , as well , might have connected Shakespeare to Florio . The poet- playwright Samuel Daniel was , as it happens , one of those ...
עמוד 22
... theater in such an astounding burst of splendor between 1600 and 1606 . My discussion will go against the grain of much past criticism by concentrating on evidences of what might seem the great artist's bumbles or omissions , his ...
... theater in such an astounding burst of splendor between 1600 and 1606 . My discussion will go against the grain of much past criticism by concentrating on evidences of what might seem the great artist's bumbles or omissions , his ...
תוכן
Hamlet Revenge | 29 |
Othellos Jealousy | 80 |
Unaccommodated Lear | 138 |
Macbeths Deeds | 191 |
The Roman Frame | 241 |
Selected Bibliography | 279 |
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