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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... centuries. Despite the leap in quality of many speeches and certain stage effects in Richard III, there is ample evidence that the play was conceived as the culmination of this first tetralogy of history plays. Shakespeare interrupts ...
... centuries of evidence that this fourth play is immeasurably more effective than the first three in the scheme, especially on stage. Shakespeare's imagination, his excitement in the exploration of his own developing powers, take wing ...
... century with the idea of a warped mind produced by a warped body. Yet psychology is a word which has entered our vocabulary only in the last hundred years. The most learned of Shakespeare's dramatic contemporaries, Ben Jonson, put ...
... centuries: 9 Olivier's film still followed this selective procedure. Although the play has since been staged in a more complete form, this has generally been as a culmination of the first tetralogy or a part of the full history cycle ...
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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 | |
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