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Skepticism and Belonging in Shakespeare's Comedy (Paperback)
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Skepticism and Belonging in Shakespeare's Comedy (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
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This book recovers a sense of the high stakes of Shakespearean
comedy, arguing that the comedies, no less than the tragedies,
serve to dramatize responses to the condition of being human,
responses that invite scholarly investigation and explanation.
Taking its cue from Stanley Cavell's influential readings of
Othello and Lear, the book argues that exposure or vulnerability to
others is the source of both human happiness and human misery;
while the tragedies showcase attempts at the evasion of such
vulnerability through the self-defeating pursuit of epistemological
certainty, the comedies present the drama and the difficulty of
turning away from an epistemological register in order to
productively respond to the fact of our humanity. Where
Shakespeare's tragedies might be viewed in Cavellian terms as the
drama of skepticism, Shakespeare's comedies then exemplify the
drama of acknowledgement. As a parallel and a preamble, Gottlieb
suggests that the field of literary studies is itself a site of
such revealing responses: where competing research methods strive
to foreclose upon (or, alternatively, rejoice in) epistemological
uncertainty, such commitments bespeak an urge to avoid or
circumvent the human in the practice of scholarship. Reading
Shakespeare's comedies in tandem with a "defactoist" view of
teaching and learning points in the direction of a new humanism,
one that eschews both the relativism of old deconstruction and
contemporary Presentism and the determinism of various kinds of
structural accounts. This book offers something new in scholarly
and popular understanding of Shakespeare's work, doing so with both
philosophical rigor and literary attention to the difficult work of
reading.
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