Shakespeare's Tragic SkepticismYale University Press, 2008年10月1日 - 304 頁 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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第 ix 頁
... one's present thinking. So in writing this book I have avoided massive annotation. I have also tried to restrain myself from trumpeting my own discoveries too confidently or pointing insistently to my differences from others. The ...
... one's present thinking. So in writing this book I have avoided massive annotation. I have also tried to restrain myself from trumpeting my own discoveries too confidently or pointing insistently to my differences from others. The ...
第 2 頁
... One's very soul , that immor- tal essence once thought to be God - implanted and unalterable , might , these plays sometimes suggest , be so elusive and variable as to bring its very existence into question . Though Shakespeare makes ...
... One's very soul , that immor- tal essence once thought to be God - implanted and unalterable , might , these plays sometimes suggest , be so elusive and variable as to bring its very existence into question . Though Shakespeare makes ...
第 11 頁
... one's life had so thoroughly disappeared that there was a changeover in the traditional social categories that contain the self , and men and women found themselves behaving in new roles and differently costumed like actors in a play ...
... one's life had so thoroughly disappeared that there was a changeover in the traditional social categories that contain the self , and men and women found themselves behaving in new roles and differently costumed like actors in a play ...
第 12 頁
... one's own powers of mind at true interpretations of Scripture , as the Re- formers were saying . But the Protestant leaders wrote tracts attack- ing the skepticism of Rome . And the Catholic Church said that the Reformers were skeptics ...
... one's own powers of mind at true interpretations of Scripture , as the Re- formers were saying . But the Protestant leaders wrote tracts attack- ing the skepticism of Rome . And the Catholic Church said that the Reformers were skeptics ...
第 16 頁
... one's readiness to set aside irrational ideas , Montaigne was cautious . He does say , in the essay “ Of the Force of Imagination , " " It is very likely that the prin- cipall credit of visions , of enchantments , and such extraordinary ...
... one's readiness to set aside irrational ideas , Montaigne was cautious . He does say , in the essay “ Of the Force of Imagination , " " It is very likely that the prin- cipall credit of visions , of enchantments , and such extraordinary ...
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2 Othellos Jealousy | 80 |
3 Unaccommodated Lear | 138 |
4 Macbeths Deeds | 191 |
The Roman Frame | 241 |
Selected Bibliography | 279 |
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