Skepticism And Belonging In Shakespeares Comedy

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 Cavells 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 Shakespeares Tragedies Might Be Viewed In Cavellian Terms As The Drama Of Skepticism, Shakespeares Comedies Then Exemplify The Drama Of Acknowledgement.