Moral physiology, ethical prototypes, and the denaturing of sense in Shakespearean tragedy.

From: College Literature | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Wehrs, Donald R. | Copyright information

It has long been noted that if, as Hegel argues, Greek tragedy concerns the conflict of competing goods, Shakespearean tragedy concerns a crisis of meaning epitomized in Macbeth's assertion that life is but a "tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing" (V.v. 26-28). (1) Placing the threat of nihilism at the heart of tragedy, Shakespeare seems to anticipate, if not inaugurate, Romantic and Modernist vocations for literature--offering literature as the sit...

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