Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare's England

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 sceptici...