Early Modern Literature in History

Hamlin, W.

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 .

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2005-06-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349523344

DOI: 10.1057/9780230502765

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 306