The Time is Out of Joint: Skepticism in Shakespeare's EnglandUniversity of Delaware Press, 2004 - 224 sidor The final decades of the sixteenth century brought tumultuous change in England. Bitter disputes concerning religious reformation divided Catholics and Protestants, radical reformers, and religious conservatives. The Church of England won the loyalty of many, but religious and political dissent continued. Social and economic change also created anxiety as social mobility, unemployment, riots, and rebellions exposed the weakness of an ideology of order. The Time is Out of Joint situates the work of four skeptics - Reginald Scot, Thomas Harriot, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare - within the context of religious and social change. These four writers responded to the dislocations of the newly formed Protestant nation by raising bold and often disturbing questions about religion and epistemology. The historical topics covered in this book - witchcraft debates, New World discovery, economic struggle, and religious reformation - reveal the diverse contexts in which skepticism appeared and the many contributions skepticism made to a nation undergoing radical change and in the process of re-thinking many of its longstanding basic assumptions. |
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The spirit of blindness and error dooth seduce them The Skepticism of Reginald Scot | 28 |
The Mayster of all essentiall and true knowledge Thomas Harriot in the New World | 58 |
Religion hides many things from suspicion Christopher Marlowes Skepticism | 95 |
And thats true too Skepticism in King Lear and Timon of Athens | 133 |
Conclusion | 167 |
Notes | 177 |
Bibliography | 205 |
Index | 219 |
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Sida 157 - Lear What! art mad? A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears. See how yon justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places and handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar?
Sida 18 - Ham. A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. King What dost thou mean by this? Ham. Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar. (4.3.27-31)
Sida 34 - Jesus Christ, which was given for thee, preserve thy body and soul into everlasting life: and take and eat this, in remembrance that Christ died for thee, and feed on him in thy heart by faith, with thanksgiving.
Sida 151 - Dimim'sh'd to her cock, her cock a buoy Almost too small for sight. The murmuring surge That on th'unnumber'd idle pebble chafes, Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more, Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. (4.6.11-24)
Sida 158 - None does offend, none, I say, none. I'll able 'em: Take that of me, my friend, who have the power To seal th'accuser's lips. Get thee glass eyes, And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.
Sida 152 - Heavens, deal so still! Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man That slaves your ordinance, that will not see Because he does not feel, feel your power quickly: So distribution should undo excess, And each man have enough. Dost thou know Dover?
Sida 151 - Come on, sir, here's the place. Stand still: how fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low. The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade; Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear like mice, and yond tall anchoring barque
Sida 146 - Edm. Come hither, captain, hark: Take thou this note. Go, follow them to prison. One step I have advanced thee. If thou dost As this instructs thee, thou dost make thy way To noble fortunes. Know thou this, that men Are as the time is; to be tender-minded Does not become a sword. Thy great employment Will not bear question: either
Sida 141 - Piety, and fear, Religion to the Gods, peace, justice, truth, Domestic awe, night-rest, and neighbourhood, Instruction, manners, mysteries, and trades, Degrees, observances, customs, and laws, Decline to your confounding contraries; And yet confusion live! (4.1.15-21)
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