Download or read book Disowning Knowledge written by Stanley Cavell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-31 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissued with a new essay on Macbeth this famous collection of essays on Shakespeare's tragedies considers these plays as responses to the crisis of knowledge and the emergence of modern skepticism provoked by the new science of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.