Disowning knowledge in seven plays of Shakespeare

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Disowning knowledge in seven plays of Shakespeare

Stanley Cavell

[Produced by Amazon], 2003

  • : pbk

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Disowning knowledge in six plays of Shakespeare

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Reprint. Originally published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003

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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.

Table of 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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