Shakespeare's Tragic SkepticismYale University Press, 2002年1月1日 - 283 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
... Shakespeare demonstrates in his treatment of char- acter " the impossibility of definition , " and that " all human percep- tion of pattern is folly ” —and yet manages to assert pattern and order through language and makes the audience ...
... Shakespeare demonstrates in his treatment of char- acter " the impossibility of definition , " and that " all human percep- tion of pattern is folly ” —and yet manages to assert pattern and order through language and makes the audience ...
第 xiv 頁
... Shakespeare the battle of contrary viewpoints is , as the witches say in Macbeth , both " lost and won . " And in this way Shakespeare stands outside any system that presumes the imperatives of a culture to be inherent in the nature of ...
... Shakespeare the battle of contrary viewpoints is , as the witches say in Macbeth , both " lost and won . " And in this way Shakespeare stands outside any system that presumes the imperatives of a culture to be inherent in the nature of ...
第 xvi 頁
... Shakespeare Montaigne's specula- tions , Plutarch's biographies , and Holinshed's historical interpreta- tions . Sometimes even a turn of phrase in these sources enlightens one about Shakespeare's own view of the subject he took in hand ...
... Shakespeare Montaigne's specula- tions , Plutarch's biographies , and Holinshed's historical interpreta- tions . Sometimes even a turn of phrase in these sources enlightens one about Shakespeare's own view of the subject he took in hand ...
第 1 頁
... Shakespeare had no general ideas worth talking about . Nevertheless , Eliot offered his own egregious simplification , a " Senecan Shakespeare , " while warning against accepting it too seriously : " About anyone as great as Shakespeare ...
... Shakespeare had no general ideas worth talking about . Nevertheless , Eliot offered his own egregious simplification , a " Senecan Shakespeare , " while warning against accepting it too seriously : " About anyone as great as Shakespeare ...
第 2 頁
... Shakespeare's own fin - de - siecle condition may be an illusion , just as the biases of earlier readers made them discover in Shakespeare their own confidence in a universe in which everything had its place and all meanings were secure ...
... Shakespeare's own fin - de - siecle condition may be an illusion , just as the biases of earlier readers made them discover in Shakespeare their own confidence in a universe in which everything had its place and all meanings were secure ...
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Hamlet Revenge | 29 |
Othellos Jealousy | 80 |
Unaccommodated Lear | 138 |
Macbeths Deeds | 191 |
The Roman Frame | 241 |
Selected Bibliography | 279 |
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