Disowning Knowledge: In Seven Plays of ShakespeareReissued 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
A Reading of King Lear | |
Othello and the Stake of the Other | |
Coriolanus and Interpretations of Politics | |
Hamlets Burden of Proof | |
Reading The Winters Tale | |
Macbeth Appalled | |
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