Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare's England

English Renaissance drama in general, says Hamlin (Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, and early modern literature; Washington State U.), but particularly the tragedy tends to examine topics from multiple angles, their constituent elements subsumed within a skeptical milieu that allows every perspective to be entertained and every utterance to be treated as provisional. He looks at the reception of ancient skepticism in Elizabethan and Jacobian England, and at a number of illustrative example tragic plays. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR