Public and Private Man in ShakespeareRoutledge, 2021. márc. 30. - 258 oldal The potential duality of human character and its capacity for dissembling was a source of fascination to the Elizabethan dramatists. Where many of them used the Machiavellian picture to draw one fair-faced scheming villain after another, Shakespeare absorbed more deeply the problem of the tensions between the public and private face of man. Originally published in 1983, this book examines the ways in which this psychological insight is developed and modified as a source of dramatic power throughout Shakespeare’s career. In the great sequence of history plays he examines the conflicting tensions of kingship and humanity, and the destructive potential of this dilemma is exploited to the full in the ‘problem plays’. In the last plays power and virtue seem altogether divorced: Prospero can retire to an old age at peace only at the abdication of all his power. This theme is central to the art of many dramatists, but in the context of Renaissance political philosophy it takes on an added resonance for Shakespeare. |
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... Measure for Measure 4. Hamlet 5. Othello 6. King Lear 7. Macbeth 8. The Roman Plays: Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus 9. The Late Romances Bibliography Index PREFACE When I first read Richard II many years ago,
... measure of his later achievement that even these popular works are often studied, and sometimes indeed produced on stage, with an eye to the masterpieces which follow. It is generally agreed the first tetralogy of history plays ...
... measures. Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright ... measured, incantatory: if the actor cares to suggest an irony in adjectives such as 'glorious', 'dreadful', 'delightful ...
... measured antitheses and elaborate verbal conceits. Only when the play's dominant animal imagery flashes out in a memorable phrase, such as Queen Margaret's earlier From forth the kennel of thy womb has crept A hell-hound that doth hunt ...
... measured formality and ritual; as the scene proceeds only Richard, with comments whose intelligence is individual and discordant, disturbs this. The scene establishes the formal setting in which Richard has to act a formal role, but it ...
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Troilus and Cressida Alls Well that Ends Well | |
Hamlet | |
Othello | |
King Lear | |
Macbeth | |
Julius Caesar Antony and Cleopatra | |
The Late Romances | |
Bibliography | |