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With an eye toward Shakespeare's inherited resources for articulating anxieties rooted in philosophical doubt, Skulsky shows that in Hamlet, Measure for Measure, King Lear, and Othello the drama of doubt in search of an exit gives its own kind of urgency to the more familiar Shakespearean drama of action and motive.

Produktbeschreibung
With an eye toward Shakespeare's inherited resources for articulating anxieties rooted in philosophical doubt, Skulsky shows that in Hamlet, Measure for Measure, King Lear, and Othello the drama of doubt in search of an exit gives its own kind of urgency to the more familiar Shakespearean drama of action and motive.
Autorenporträt
HAROLD SKULSKY is the Mary Augusta Jordan Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature at Smith College, and is an adjunct professor of philosophy at Hofstra University. His works include Spirits Finely Touched: The Testing of Value and Integrity in Four Shakespearean Plays and Language Recreated: Seventeenth-Century Metaphorists and the Act of Metaphor (both Georgia), as well as Metamorphosis: The Mind in Exile, Milton and the Death of Man: Humanism on Trial in Paradise Lost, and Staring into the Void: Spinoza the Master of Nihilism.