Reissued with a new preface and a new essay on Macbeth, King Lear, Othello, Coriolanius, Hamlet and The Winter's Tale, this famous collection of essays on Shakespeare's tragedies considers the plays as responses to the crisis of knowledge and the emergence of modern skepticism.
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"Cavell's essays on Shakespeare--deep, intellectually tenacious, and humane meditations on the nature of artistic genius--are thrilling and essential reading. They illuminate the relation between skepticism and theater, transform the language of literary criticism, and heighten the ethical significance of aesthetic response." Stephen Greenblatt, Professor of Literature, University of California, Berkeley
"These beautiful essays on Shakespeare, lucid, complicated, and deeply moving, are unique in recent criticism for the conversation they forge between philosophy and literature. Unified by the twin themes of knowledge and acknowledgement...the volume brings together some of the most remarkable literary essays in modern scholarship. To his now famous readings of six plays of Shakespeare, Cavell now adds a stunning new piece on Macbeth, containing complicated meditations about gender, sexuality, and humanity." Martha Nussbaum
"These insightful essays, the first of which was writter in 1969, remain immediate and relevant...." Choice
"These beautiful essays on Shakespeare, lucid, complicated, and deeply moving, are unique in recent criticism for the conversation they forge between philosophy and literature. Unified by the twin themes of knowledge and acknowledgement...the volume brings together some of the most remarkable literary essays in modern scholarship. To his now famous readings of six plays of Shakespeare, Cavell now adds a stunning new piece on Macbeth, containing complicated meditations about gender, sexuality, and humanity." Martha Nussbaum
"These insightful essays, the first of which was writter in 1969, remain immediate and relevant...." Choice
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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 16th and early 17th centuries.
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This is a wonderful way to become acquainted with the thought of Stanley Cavell--one of the most important living philosophers in America. The essays on Shakespeare are stunning, and one can feel the force of a restless, moral, rigorous mind at work in every turn of the arguments. Some of these essays are collected from earlier publications, but the reprinting of all his essays on Shakespeare, plus some new work, make it very worth owning!
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I HAVE resisted earlier suggestions that the few essays I have devoted to individual plays of Shakespeare be put together as a book. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
skepticism with respect, wolf love, ordinary language philosophy, world catastrophe Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lady Macbeth, The Winter's Tale, King Lear, The Claim of Reason, New York, Janet Adelman, Marc Shell, Wolf Man, Critique of Pure Reason, Descartes's Meditations, Harvard University Press, Mark Antony, Nietzsche's Pale Criminal, Wilson Knight, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations New!
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I HAVE resisted earlier suggestions that the few essays I have devoted to individual plays of Shakespeare be put together as a book. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
skepticism with respect, wolf love, ordinary language philosophy, world catastrophe Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lady Macbeth, The Winter's Tale, King Lear, The Claim of Reason, New York, Janet Adelman, Marc Shell, Wolf Man, Critique of Pure Reason, Descartes's Meditations, Harvard University Press, Mark Antony, Nietzsche's Pale Criminal, Wilson Knight, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations New!
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- Antony and Cleopatra (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare on 8 pages
- Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare on 8 pages
- King Lear (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on 8 pages
- Philosophical Investigations (3rd Edition) by Ludwig Wittgenstein on 6 pages
- Shakespearean Tragedy by A.C. Bradley on page 39, page 129, and page 145
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- Stanley Cavell (Contemporary Philosophy in Focus) by Richard Eldridge on page 238, and Back Matter
- Literature, Disaster, and the Enigma of Power: A Reading of 'Moby-Dick' by Eyal Peretz in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Contesting Tears: The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman by Stanley Cavell in Back Matter
- The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was: Myths of Self-Imitation by Wendy Doniger in Back Matter
- In Quest of the Ordinary: Lines of Skepticism and Romanticism by Stanley Cavell in Back Matter
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