Shakespeare's Patterns of Self-knowledge

accept according action Angelo answer appears argument asks becomes beginning believe better body Brutus Caesar called character Christian claim comedies comes concept concern considered contrast course created critics death divine earlier effect Elizabethan evil eyes fear feeling frame give Hamlet Henry heroes human humanistic Iago idea ideal kind king knowledge lack later Lear Lear's least look lose lost Macbeth man's matter means Measure merely mind moral nature never nosce teipsum noted Othello paradox particular passion patience pattern philosophical play political present prince problem Prospero question reason Renaissance Richard role scene self-knowledge sense Shake Shakespeare shows similar skeptic soliloquy soul speech spirit suffering suggested things thou thought tion tragedy tragic Troilus true truth turn understanding universe values virtue