Вилијам Шекспир и идеја модернитета: homo novus и елизабетинска епистема
William Shakespeare and the Idea of Modernity: Homo Novus and the Elizabethan Episteme

Summary/Abstract: The dramatic plays of William Shakespeare represent not only the artistic expression of a genius who explored human nature in all its complex and multiple forms, but also an important interpretative key to understand the great epistemic transformations that occurred between the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. While envisaging modern man’s psychic torments and dilemmas, Shakespeare adopted a language that was already grafted on the modern world, since it also contemplated the idea of nothingness as the unavoidable trait of human experience. The fact that there was something absurd about the human condition – which became even more evident with the gradual albeit inexorable ending of the Medieval order centred on the Great Chain of Being – in no way eluded him

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