Disowning Knowledge: In Seven Plays of Shakespeare

Reissued with a new preface and a new essay on Macbeth, King Lear, Othello, Coriolanius, Hamlet and The Winter's Tale, this famous collection of essays on Shakespeare's tragedies considers the plays as responses to the crisis of knowledge and the emergence of modern skepticism.

• Author
• Stanley Cavell

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 272

• Publisher
• Cambridge University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780521529204

• Genres
• philosophy, criticism, theory

• Release date
• 2003