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Disowning Knowledge: In Seven Plays of Shakespeare 2nd Revised edition


Disowning Knowledge: In Seven Plays of Shakespeare 2nd Revised edition

Hardback by Cavell, Stanley (Harvard University, Massachusetts)

Disowning Knowledge: In Seven Plays of Shakespeare

£85.99

ISBN:
9780521821896
Publication Date:
7 Apr 2003
Edition/language:
2nd Revised edition / English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Pages:
272 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 28 May - 2 Jun 2024
Disowning Knowledge: In Seven Plays of Shakespeare

Description

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.

Contents

Preface and acknowledgements; Preface to the updated edition; 1. Introduction; 2. The avoidance of love: a reading of King Lear; 3. Othello and the stake of the other; 4. Coriolanus and interpretation of politics; 5. Hamlet's burden of proof; 6. Recounting gains, showing losses: reading The Winter's Tale; 7. Macbeth appalled; Index of names and titles.

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