Disowning knowledge in seven plays of Shakespeare

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Reissued with a new essay on Macbeth this famous collection of essays on Shakespeare's tragedies considers these plays as responses to the crisis of knowledge and the emergence of modern skepticism provoked by the new science of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

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Full title :Disowning knowledge in seven plays of Shakespeare / Stanley Cavell.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2003.
Edition:Updated ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, U.K
Language:eng
Publication Date:2003.

Notes

Revised edition of: Disowning knowledge in six plays of Shakespeare.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xvi, 250 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781139165129, 1139165127
oclc:ocn817925345
LC Classification:PR2983
Dewey Decimal:822.3/3

1. Introduction -- 2. The Avoidance of Love: A Reading of King Lear -- 3. Othello and the Stake of the Other -- 4. Coriolanus and Interpretations of Politics -- 5. Hamlet's Burden of Proof.

6. Recounting Gains, Showing Losses: Readi ng The Winter's Tale -- 7. Macbeth Appalled.

Subjects

Connaissance, Théorie de la, dans la li… Criticism and interpretation Erkenntnistheorie Filosofische aspecten Knowledge, Theory of, in literature Literatuurtheorie Philosophy Scepticisme dans la littérature Shakespeare, William Skepticism in literature Skeptizismus Théorie de la connaissance dans la litt… Toneelstukken Tragédie tragedies Tragedy Tragödie