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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... references. ISBN 0-300-09255-5 (alk. paper) 1. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 — Tragedies. 2. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 — Philosophy. 3. Skepticism in literature. 4. Tragedy. I. Title. PR.2983 .B45 2002 822. 3'3 — dc2i 2002003122 ...
... references. ISBN 0-300-09255-5 (alk. paper) 1. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 — Tragedies. 2. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 — Philosophy. 3. Skepticism in literature. 4. Tragedy. I. Title. PR.2983 .B45 2002 822. 3'3 — dc2i 2002003122 ...
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... reference in my book as representation of ageneralskeptical viewpoint emerging in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I have felt it important, however, also to note that what we witness as the poetry and action go forward in these ...
... reference in my book as representation of ageneralskeptical viewpoint emerging in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I have felt it important, however, also to note that what we witness as the poetry and action go forward in these ...
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... writing Measure for Measure and Hamlet,plays fullof verbal reference to death and disease,one-sixth of the inhabitants of London—thirty-six thousand persons—died of the plague. The theaters were closed from mid- Introduction.
... writing Measure for Measure and Hamlet,plays fullof verbal reference to death and disease,one-sixth of the inhabitants of London—thirty-six thousand persons—died of the plague. The theaters were closed from mid- Introduction.
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... reference to the terror of real moments remembered by Shakespeare's audience when the regulators of clock and calendar disappeared from the skies. Such phenomena seemed more portentous because humanevents aboundedinsuddenchange and ...
... reference to the terror of real moments remembered by Shakespeare's audience when the regulators of clock and calendar disappeared from the skies. Such phenomena seemed more portentous because humanevents aboundedinsuddenchange and ...
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... reference, his interest in Montaigne was already noticed by his contemporaries—or, at least by so perceptive a friendly rival as this fellow-dramatist. But there seems not to have been any more specific notice of the relation of ...
... reference, his interest in Montaigne was already noticed by his contemporaries—or, at least by so perceptive a friendly rival as this fellow-dramatist. But there seems not to have been any more specific notice of the relation of ...
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