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 xiii 頁
... specific historic issues that entwine with more general problems . Mundane conditions of shifting social power , or of problematic class , gender , race , and generational relations , can be glimpsed in each play . One cannot write ...
... specific historic issues that entwine with more general problems . Mundane conditions of shifting social power , or of problematic class , gender , race , and generational relations , can be glimpsed in each play . One cannot write ...
第 20 頁
... specific notice of the relation of Shake- speare and Montaigne until the eighteenth century , when the edi- tor Edward Capell drew attention to the way The Tempest seems almost to put into verse parts of Florio's version of the essay ...
... specific notice of the relation of Shake- speare and Montaigne until the eighteenth century , when the edi- tor Edward Capell drew attention to the way The Tempest seems almost to put into verse parts of Florio's version of the essay ...
第 21 頁
... specific transfer . Othello , written in 1603 or 1604 , does not so strongly exhibit those verbal markers of Shakespeare's fingering of Florio to be noted in Lear or Hamlet , and no specific transmission need be inferred from my ...
... specific transfer . Othello , written in 1603 or 1604 , does not so strongly exhibit those verbal markers of Shakespeare's fingering of Florio to be noted in Lear or Hamlet , and no specific transmission need be inferred from my ...
第 52 頁
... specific experience or event . I would call the instinctive response of reader or hearer to the power of this famous speech sounder than insistence upon psychologic plot - logic . Ham- let has ceased to be , as he so often ceases to be ...
... specific experience or event . I would call the instinctive response of reader or hearer to the power of this famous speech sounder than insistence upon psychologic plot - logic . Ham- let has ceased to be , as he so often ceases to be ...
第 53 頁
... specific occasions . He is a man of the book , we must remember , like no other in Shakespeare except , per- haps , Brutus . " But look where sadly the poor wretch comes read- ing , " the queen observes . How we wish we knew what he ...
... specific occasions . He is a man of the book , we must remember , like no other in Shakespeare except , per- haps , Brutus . " But look where sadly the poor wretch comes read- ing , " the queen observes . How we wish we knew what he ...
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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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