Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare's England - Hardcover

by W. Hamlin (Author)

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 Troilus and Cressida to The Tragedy of Mariam, The Duchess of Malfi, and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore .

Author Biography

WILLIAM M. HAMLIN teaches Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, and early-modern literature at Washington State University, USA. Author of The Image of America in Montaigne, Spenser and Shakespeare (1995), he has also published essays and reviews in such journals as English Literary Renaissance, SEL, Montaigne Studies, Renaissance Quarterly, Shakespeare Studies and the Journal of the History of Ideas.