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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... nature of causation would certainly have been felt by anyone who chose to think about such things ab- stractly . Tumultuous social condi- tions raised ultimate questions for Shakespeare , Bell argues , and ultimately provoked in him a ...
... nature of causation would certainly have been felt by anyone who chose to think about such things ab- stractly . Tumultuous social condi- tions raised ultimate questions for Shakespeare , Bell argues , and ultimately provoked in him a ...
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... nature of things - though the New Historicist Stephen Greenblatt probably would deny that there is any possible way of standing entirely " outside . " Shakespeare , one might almost propose , is an early - seventeenth century New ...
... nature of things - though the New Historicist Stephen Greenblatt probably would deny that there is any possible way of standing entirely " outside . " Shakespeare , one might almost propose , is an early - seventeenth century New ...
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... Nature's disorders will be shown to correspond to human disorders . So the night passed on the battlements of Elsinore , where men barely recognize one another and the ghost appears , is a night like that in Macbeth when Duncan will be ...
... Nature's disorders will be shown to correspond to human disorders . So the night passed on the battlements of Elsinore , where men barely recognize one another and the ghost appears , is a night like that in Macbeth when Duncan will be ...
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... nature " a " phantasy , " a way of pleading , wrongly , " that our sins are not the cause . " But the mystery of human causes often seems in Shakespeare's plays , as it often seemed in common expe- rience , to be impenetrable . Socially ...
... nature " a " phantasy , " a way of pleading , wrongly , " that our sins are not the cause . " But the mystery of human causes often seems in Shakespeare's plays , as it often seemed in common expe- rience , to be impenetrable . Socially ...
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... nature can be inexplicably altered by possession , and the events of life directed into unexpected courses by forces beyond our detec- tion — or visible only by demonic and misleading prophecy — must have attracted precisely the ...
... nature can be inexplicably altered by possession , and the events of life directed into unexpected courses by forces beyond our detec- tion — or visible only by demonic and misleading prophecy — must have attracted precisely the ...
Inhalt
Hamlet Revenge | 29 |
Othellos Jealousy | 80 |
Unaccommodated Lear | 138 |
Macbeths Deeds | 191 |
The Roman Frame | 241 |
Selected Bibliography | 279 |
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