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tragedian aroused powerful disagreements in his audiencenot least
because of his apparent disrespect for the gods. The con?ict
bet [link widoczny dla zalogowanych][link widoczny dla zalogowanych]n traditional belief and modern scepticism is wrought into
the very texture of Euripides’ plays – as it is into Shakespeare’s.
Think of the discrepancy in King Lear bet[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]n Gloucester’s
superstition and his bastard son Edmund’s all too modern
rationalismor the rift bet[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]n Othello’s religious language and
Iago’s sophisticated cynicism.
Neverthelessfor all the con?icts within the worlds out of which
these plays issuedwe must acknowledge the great historical
division between classical tragedy and everything afterwards.
Whatever premonitions there had been in the pagan world
Christianity introduced to the West a nexus of new beliefs in the
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futurein re-birth and redemption and resurrection. The words
inspired in Horatio by the dying Hamlet are inconceivable in
Sophocles: ‘?ights of angels sing thee to thy rest’ (V. ii. 313).
Christianity changed the meaning of hope. Through its great central
image of Christ on the crossit also changed the meaning of
suffering. Christian faith was yilai:
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