Dynamism of Character in Shakespeare's Mature TragediesUniversity of Delaware Press, 2003 - 327 oldal Dynamism of Character in Shakespeare's Mature Tragedies applies the systems theory of character to the analysis of the psychological and dramatic consistency of the main characters of Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. The theory considers human behavior in terms of functional equilibrium between the stable properties of the mind, independent of the pressures of the sociocultural environment and the immediate situational context. What we call character thus denotes an autonomous configuration of psychological elements, which ensure the consistency and continuity of individual identity, despite the influence of the changing external circumstances. intuitive, and impressionistic approaches to character criticism, to the New Critical aesthetic readings of Shakespeare's plays which often ignore psychology as a valid interpretive perspective, and to the more recent cultural materialist readings that consider dramatic characters solely as functions of external, sociocultural forces. Piotr Sadowski teaches English literature at the American College Dublin, Dublin Business School, and Trinity College Dublin. |
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... feelings ; they channel them . " 30 On top of that comes Hamlet's awareness of this self - dramatizing ten- dency , which causes him to playact his real feelings and talk about the fact of acting at the same time . In a covert rebuke of ...
... feelings ; they channel them . " 30 On top of that comes Hamlet's awareness of this self - dramatizing ten- dency , which causes him to playact his real feelings and talk about the fact of acting at the same time . In a covert rebuke of ...
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... feelings , which she now owes to Othello . In other words , in all these static , decent , principled characters we are dealing with a balance between social custom and convention and their private feelings and convictions that approve ...
... feelings , which she now owes to Othello . In other words , in all these static , decent , principled characters we are dealing with a balance between social custom and convention and their private feelings and convictions that approve ...
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... feelings.33 For Lear public speaking is an insep- arable part of his royal persona , and as a static person he also be- lieves that words spoken in public reflect the genuine feelings of the speaker . On the other hand Cordelia is too ...
... feelings.33 For Lear public speaking is an insep- arable part of his royal persona , and as a static person he also be- lieves that words spoken in public reflect the genuine feelings of the speaker . On the other hand Cordelia is too ...
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Preface | 7 |
Shakespeare and Character Criticism | 13 |
Toward Systems Theory of Character | 26 |
Copyright | |
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