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Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance 3 Title 5 Copyright 6 Dedication 7 Contents 9 Acknowledgments 11 Introduction 13 PART ONE: “FAREWELL THE TRANQUIL MIND”: Tragic Doubt in Homer’s Iliad, Sophocles’ Philoctetes, and Shakespeare’s Othello 37 1: Achilles’ Doubt and Heroism-at-One-Remove in Homer’s Iliad 39 DOUBT IN CONTEXT 39 DECISION MAKING AND THE INTERNAL LIFE IN THE ILIAD 44 SHAME, HONOR, AND CONFORMITY TO A HABITUS 48 THE HABITUS CONCEPTUALIZED 51 UNMASKING DOXA AND SPEAKING AS A FOREIGNER 53 ALIENATION AND THE PULSE OF TRAGIC DOUBT 57 ACHILLES’ SHIELD AND THE EPIC AS SELF-CRITIQUE 59 PRIAM’S VISIT AND THE EXTENUATION OF DOUBT 61 2: Moral Doubt and the Claims of Pity in Sophocles’ Philoctetes 64 PHILOCTETES AND THE ACHILLEAN MOLD 64 PSYCHOMACHIA AND STRAYING FROM “NATURE” 67 COMIC MATRIX / TRAGIC ACTION 69 ERROR AND THE SHADOW OF INTELLIGENCE 70 DOUBT, DOUBLE TELEOLOGY, AND THE INCOMMENSURABLE 73 3: “Do As If for Surety”: Doubt and Delusions of Certainty in Shakespeare’s Othello 77 WHAT MAKES A MOOR VENETIAN 77 NOT IN BEING SPLIT BUT ONE 79 NOT IN THE EQUIVOCAL BUT THE ABSOLUTE 84 NOT DOUBT BUT CERTITUDE 87 ANTIQUE TOKENS AND NUMINOUS OBJECTS 89 PART TWO: COMIC

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Zerba, Michelle

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