Tragedy And Scepticism In Shakespeares England
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Author | : W. Hamlin |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2005-06-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230502768 |
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Hamlin's study provides the first full-scale account of the reception and literary appropriation of ancient scepticism in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (c. 1570-1630). Offering abundant archival evidence as well as fresh treatments of Florio's Montaigne and Bacon's career-long struggle with the challenges of epistemological doubt, Hamlin's book explores the deep connections between scepticism and tragedy in plays ranging from Doctor Faustus and Troilus and Cressida to The Tragedy of Mariam , The Duchess of Malfi , and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore .
Author | : W. Hamlin |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2005-06-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781403945983 |
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Hamlin's study provides the first full-scale account of the reception and literary appropriation of ancient scepticism in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (c. 1570-1630). Offering abundant archival evidence as well as fresh treatments of Florio's Montaigne and Bacon's career-long struggle with the challenges of epistemological doubt, Hamlin's book explores the deep connections between scepticism and tragedy in plays ranging from Doctor Faustus and Troilus and Cressida to The Tragedy of Mariam , The Duchess of Malfi , and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore .
Author | : Millicent Bell |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0300127200 |
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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.
Author | : Melissa M. Caldwell |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2016-09-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317054555 |
Download Skepticism and Belief in Early Modern England Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The central thesis of this book is that skepticism was instrumental to the defense of orthodox religion and the development of the identity of the Church of England. Examining the presence of skepticism in non-fiction prose literature at four transitional moments in English Protestant history during which orthodoxy was challenged and revised, Melissa Caldwell argues that a skeptical mode of thinking is embedded in the literary and rhetorical choices made by English writers who straddle the project of reform and the maintenance of orthodoxy after the Reformation in England. Far from being a radical belief simply indicative of an emerging secularism, she demonstrates the varied and complex appropriations of skeptical thought in early modern England. By examining a selection of various kinds of literature-including religious polemic, dialogue, pamphlets, sermons, and treatises-produced at key moments in early modern England’s religious history, Caldwell shows how the writers under consideration capitalized on the unscripted moral space that emerged in the wake of the Reformation. The result was a new kind of discourse--and a new form of orthodoxy--that sought both to exploit and to contain the skepticism unearthed by the Reformation.
Author | : Geoffrey Aggeler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780874136616 |
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Runner-up in the 1997 University of Delaware Press Shakespeare manuscript competition, Nobler in the Mind reviews two major intellectual movements, the Stoic and Skeptic revivals, which, along with the Protestant Reformation, profoundly affected English Renaissance drama. The discussions of the dialectic in the plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries may be seen as parts of an extended preface to the discussion of Hamlet.
Author | : Harold Bloom |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1438129424 |
Download William Shakespeare Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of William Shakespeare.
Author | : Peter G. Platt |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2020-07-31 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1474463428 |
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Through sustained close-readings of Montaigne's essays and Shakespeare's plays, Platt explores both authors' approaches to self, knowledge and form that stress fractures, interruptions and alternatives.
Author | : A.C. Bradley |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2018-03-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 113709253X |
Download Shakespearean Tragedy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A.C.Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy, first published in 1904, ranks as one of the greatest works of Shakespearean criticism of all time. In his ten lectures, Bradley has provided a study of the four great tragedies - Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth - which reveals a deep understanding of Shakespearean thought and art. This centenary edition features a new Introduction by Robert Shaughnessy which places Bradley's work in the critical, intellectual and cultural context of its time. Shaughnessy summarises the content and argumentative thrust of the book, outlines the critical debates and counter-arguments that have followed in the wake of its publication and, most importantly, prompts readers to engage with Bradley's work itself.
Author | : Noam Reisner |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2024-06-30 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 100946244X |
Download Performing Ethics in English Revenge Drama Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
An investigation of how Renaissance English revenge drama carried out important ethical work through audience participation and metatheatre.
Author | : Derek Gottlieb |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2015-08-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317509080 |
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This book recovers a sense of the high stakes of Shakespearean comedy, arguing that the comedies, no less than the tragedies, serve to dramatize responses to the condition of being human, responses that invite scholarly investigation and explanation. Taking its cue from Stanley Cavell’s influential readings of Othello and Lear, the book argues that exposure or vulnerability to others is the source of both human happiness and human misery; while the tragedies showcase attempts at the evasion of such vulnerability through the self-defeating pursuit of epistemological certainty, the comedies present the drama and the difficulty of turning away from an epistemological register in order to productively respond to the fact of our humanity. Where Shakespeare’s tragedies might be viewed in Cavellian terms as the drama of skepticism, Shakespeare’s comedies then exemplify the drama of acknowledgement. As a parallel and a preamble, Gottlieb suggests that the field of literary studies is itself a site of such revealing responses: where competing research methods strive to foreclose upon (or, alternatively, rejoice in) epistemological uncertainty, such commitments bespeak an urge to avoid or circumvent the human in the practice of scholarship. Reading Shakespeare’s comedies in tandem with a "defactoist" view of teaching and learning points in the direction of a new humanism, one that eschews both the relativism of old deconstruction and contemporary Presentism and the determinism of various kinds of structural accounts. This book offers something new in scholarly and popular understanding of Shakespeare’s work, doing so with both philosophical rigor and literary attention to the difficult work of reading.