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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... play " repudiates the essentialism which the 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 ...
... play " repudiates the essentialism which the 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 ...
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... play in which " finality is regularly unattainable , " and " characters will not stay within limits , " and " cause and effect do net work " ; the play manipulates the audi- ence to experience conflicted responses . I have also tried to ...
... play in which " finality is regularly unattainable , " and " characters will not stay within limits , " and " cause and effect do net work " ; the play manipulates the audi- ence to experience conflicted responses . I have also tried to ...
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... play . To these portents Horatio adds " disasters in the sun " and the moon's eclipse , reminders to the theater audience of the solar and lunar eclipses of 1589-1601 . Maybe G. R. Hibbard , the excellent Oxford editor , goes too far in ...
... play . To these portents Horatio adds " disasters in the sun " and the moon's eclipse , reminders to the theater audience of the solar and lunar eclipses of 1589-1601 . Maybe G. R. Hibbard , the excellent Oxford editor , goes too far in ...
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... play , as Shakespeare himself was likely to say . During Shakespeare's lifetime , moreover , it was not only new social actualities that placed former assumptions in doubt . The minds of men and women were charged with the effects of ...
... play , as Shakespeare himself was likely to say . During Shakespeare's lifetime , moreover , it was not only new social actualities that placed former assumptions in doubt . The minds of men and women were charged with the effects of ...
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... play written by this rival playwright within the play hovers over Shakespeare's Othello , and we experience the shudder that comes from the realization that absolute certainty is not possible . Ham- let , whose " inky cloak " of ...
... play written by this rival playwright within the play hovers over Shakespeare's Othello , and we experience the shudder that comes from the realization that absolute certainty is not possible . Ham- let , whose " inky cloak " of ...
Inhalt
Hamlet Revenge | 29 |
Othellos Jealousy | 80 |
Unaccommodated Lear | 138 |
Macbeths Deeds | 191 |
The Roman Frame | 241 |
Selected Bibliography | 279 |
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