Staging doubt : skepticism in early modern European drama /
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, Lo...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
[2019]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Item Description: | Revision and translation of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Freie Universität Berlin, 2015, entitled Skeptizismus im europäischen Drama der Frühen Neuzeit : Untersuchungen zu Dramentexten von Shakespeare, Calderón, Lope de Vega, Rotrou und Cervantes. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (381 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-381). |
| ISBN: | 9783110660548 3110660547 9783110660586 311066058X |