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Shakespeare's Scepticism

Author: Graham Bradshaw

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13:

Explores the question of value in Shakespeare's drama. Bradshaw maintains that Shakespeare was preoccupied with the question throughout his career, and the plays themselves show how opposing visions of nature yield opposing accounts of value. He believes that Shakespeare's skepticism in respect to value represents a mode of dramatic thinking, which depends on the practices and conventions of poetic drama and must be distinguished from the processes of logical discursive argument.--From publisher description.

Shakespeare's Tragic Skepticism

Author: Millicent Bell

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2008-10-01

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 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.

Shakespeare Survey

Author: Stanley Wells

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-11-28

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780521523851

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The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.

Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare's England

Author: W. Hamlin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-06-01

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 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 .

Shakespeare’s Entrails

Author: D. Hillman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-12-14

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 0230285929

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Shakespeare's Entrails explores the connections between embodiment, knowledge and acknowledgement in Shakespeare's plays. Hillman sets out a theory of the emergence of modern subjectivity in the context of a world that was increasingly coming to see the human body as a closed system.

Shakespeare's Moral Compass

Author: Neema Parvini

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2018-08-13

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1474432891

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Examines the aesthetics, concepts and politics of chaotic and obscured moving images.

Shakespeare's History Plays

Author: Neema Parvini

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2017-11-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 147442354X

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Shakespeare's History Plays boldly moves criticism of Shakespeare's history plays beyond anti-humanist theoretical approaches. This important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years. It heralds a new, more dynamic way of reading Shakespeare as a supremely intelligent and creative political thinker, whose history plays address and illuminate the very questions with which cultural historicists have been so preoccupied since the 1980s. In providing bold and original readings of the first and second tetralogies (Henry VI, Richard III, Richard II and Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2), the book reignites old debates and re-energises recent bids to humanise Shakespeare and to restore agency to the individual in the critical readings of his plays

Special Section, Shakespeare and Montaigne Revisited

Author: Graham Bradshaw

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 980

ISBN-13: 9780754655893

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This year including a special section on "Shakespeare and Montaigne Revisited," The Shakespearean International Yearbook continues to provide an annual survey of important issues and developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies. Contributors to this issue come from the US and the UK, Canada, Sweden, Japan and Australia. This issue includes an interview with veteran American actor Alvin Epstein during his recent acclaimed performance of King Lear for the Actors' Shakespeare project in Boston.

Shakespeare's Essays

Author: Peter G. Platt

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2020-07-31

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 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.

Seeming Knowledge

Author: John D. Cox

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1932792953

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Seeming Knowledge revisits the question of Shakespeare and religion by focusing on the conjunction of faith and skepticism in his writing. Cox argues that the relationship between faith and skepticism is not an invented conjunction. The recognition of the history of faith and skepticism in the sixteenth century illuminates a tradition that Shakespeare inherited and represented more subtly and effectively than any other writer of his generation.