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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... truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing from action.'' But un- like many less keenly observant critics who have come in Bradley's wake, he himself admitted that this idea ''was an exaggeration of a vital truth ...
... truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing from action.'' But un- like many less keenly observant critics who have come in Bradley's wake, he himself admitted that this idea ''was an exaggeration of a vital truth ...
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... truth and worth of things, but he also invites us to question the absoluteness of our ideas and the validity of our impressions in the most radical way. A working title for this book was Honest Shakespeare—meant to give our authora ...
... truth and worth of things, but he also invites us to question the absoluteness of our ideas and the validity of our impressions in the most radical way. A working title for this book was Honest Shakespeare—meant to give our authora ...
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... truths of his time. He also allows his audiences to view fearfully the results of abandoning the prop of such beliefs. This is the hidden structure of argument in Shakespeare's plays. Within these plays there are particular poetic ...
... truths of his time. He also allows his audiences to view fearfully the results of abandoning the prop of such beliefs. This is the hidden structure of argument in Shakespeare's plays. Within these plays there are particular poetic ...
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... truth—howsoever it differed from that of everyone else. Renaissance skepticism was the special product of a state of belief that required an allowance of faith in the place of rational proof—thus an escape from, not an assertion of ...
... truth—howsoever it differed from that of everyone else. Renaissance skepticism was the special product of a state of belief that required an allowance of faith in the place of rational proof—thus an escape from, not an assertion of ...
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... truth might seem—a thought that prevails in Othello. About disbelief in witches as a test of 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 ...
... truth might seem—a thought that prevails in Othello. About disbelief in witches as a test of 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 ...
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