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 6 頁
... reflected one another , there hung a doubt of the human capacity to perceive life truly . This doubt is expressed with a curious precision in Othello but could also have been heard in contemporary witchcraft trials , a parallel I shall ...
... reflected one another , there hung a doubt of the human capacity to perceive life truly . This doubt is expressed with a curious precision in Othello but could also have been heard in contemporary witchcraft trials , a parallel I shall ...
第 9 頁
... reflecting a wide- spread response to the successive eclipses of both in conjunction with the Gunpowder Plot in the autumn of 1605. Othello sees his wife's supposed betrayal as a time when there should be a huge eclipse Of sun and moon ...
... reflecting a wide- spread response to the successive eclipses of both in conjunction with the Gunpowder Plot in the autumn of 1605. Othello sees his wife's supposed betrayal as a time when there should be a huge eclipse Of sun and moon ...
第 19 頁
... reflected . One can hardly doubt that Shakespeare heard speculative dis- cussions in London stimulated by a new interest in the recently re- discovered writings of classical skepticism , which had already been assimilated by Montaigne ...
... reflected . One can hardly doubt that Shakespeare heard speculative dis- cussions in London stimulated by a new interest in the recently re- discovered writings of classical skepticism , which had already been assimilated by Montaigne ...
第 37 頁
... reflecting the effect of a production in making the indefinite definite . It is in this Hamlet and not in either the Sec- ond Quarto or the 1623 Folio that Gertrude denies any knowledge of her husband's murder . In these other two ...
... reflecting the effect of a production in making the indefinite definite . It is in this Hamlet and not in either the Sec- ond Quarto or the 1623 Folio that Gertrude denies any knowledge of her husband's murder . In these other two ...
第 45 頁
... reflect Montaigne and even anticipates Hume in its indifference to commonsense presump- tions about cause and effect may , for Shakespeare , bring into doubt the linkage of happenings . Instead , Hamlet's Denmark suffers from a sense ...
... reflect Montaigne and even anticipates Hume in its indifference to commonsense presump- tions about cause and effect may , for Shakespeare , bring into doubt the linkage of happenings . Instead , Hamlet's Denmark suffers from a sense ...
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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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