Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare's England

by William M. Hamlin

Book Overview

Hamlin's study provides the first full-scale account of the reception and literary appropriation of ancient scepticism in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (c. 1570-1630). Offering abundant archival evidence as well as fresh treatments of Florio's Montaigne and Bacon's career-long struggle with the challenges of epistemological doubt, Hamlin's book explores the deep connections between scepticism and tragedy in plays ranging from Doctor Faustus and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349523348
• ISBN13: 9781349523344
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"