Shakespeare's Tragic SkepticismYale University Press, 01.01.2002 - 283 Seiten 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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... human character and the moral significance of behavior , or even about the discoverable links to one another of human events -these were not always sustained by the plays . I began to sus- pect , as some others have , that Shakespeare's ...
... human character and the moral significance of behavior , or even about the discoverable links to one another of human events -these were not always sustained by the plays . I began to sus- pect , as some others have , that Shakespeare's ...
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... human choice always plays a role . Nor as the consequence of blind accident , either . Critics have rarely admitted that Shakespeare leaves the dilemma unresolved . I am very grateful to have found encouragement for my own views in a ...
... human choice always plays a role . Nor as the consequence of blind accident , either . Critics have rarely admitted that Shakespeare leaves the dilemma unresolved . I am very grateful to have found encouragement for my own views in a ...
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... human- ist reading of it presupposes . " I have been influenced by this view , though I feel that it overlooks the agon which makes for tragedy , the struggle for a selfhood that we witness not only in King Lear but in the other plays ...
... human- ist reading of it presupposes . " I have been influenced by this view , though I feel that it overlooks the agon which makes for tragedy , the struggle for a selfhood that we witness not only in King Lear but in the other plays ...
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... human percep- tion of pattern is folly ” —and yet manages to assert pattern and order through language and makes the audience " think in multiple dimensions . " Macbeth , Booth writes , is a play in which " finality is regularly ...
... human percep- tion of pattern is folly ” —and yet manages to assert pattern and order through language and makes the audience " think in multiple dimensions . " Macbeth , Booth writes , is a play in which " finality is regularly ...
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... humanity and the universe , I feel the diffidence Eliot urged one to have . I believe that the plays I am examining in this I book exhibit the effects of a potent philosophic skepticism verg- introduction: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear ...
... humanity and the universe , I feel the diffidence Eliot urged one to have . I believe that the plays I am examining in this I book exhibit the effects of a potent philosophic skepticism verg- introduction: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear ...
Inhalt
Hamlet Revenge | 29 |
Othellos Jealousy | 80 |
Unaccommodated Lear | 138 |
Macbeths Deeds | 191 |
The Roman Frame | 241 |
Selected Bibliography | 279 |
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