Staging Doubt : Skepticism in Early Modern European Drama / Leonie Pawlita.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pawlita, Leonie, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

This volume considers the influential revival of ancient philosophical skepticism in the 16th and early 17th centuries and investigates, from a comparative perspective, its reception in early modern English, Spanish and French drama, dedicating detailed readings to plays by Shakespeare, Calderón, Lope de Vega, Rotrou, Desfontaines, and Cervantes. While all the plays employ similar dramatic devices for "putting skepticism on stage", the study explores how these dramas, however, give different "answers" to the challenges posed by skepticism in relation to their respective historico-cultural and "ideological" contexts.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction

1. Skepticism in the Philosophical Tradition

2. On Skepticism in Shakespeare's Hamlet

3. Aspects of Skepticism in Calderón's La vida es sueño

4. Aspects of Skepticism in the Genesius Plays by Lope de Vega and Jean de Rotrou

5. Cervantes, Entremés del Retablo de las maravillas

Conclusions

References

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

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ISBN:

9783110660586

311066058X

OCLC:

1121057323