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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... danger is that one becomes so insistent upon one's theme that one ignores all other considerations, except as they may be treated as lesser threads in one's own tapestry. I have tried to remain aware of the danger throughout: it would ...
... danger of a flagging of dramatic interest. When the dazzling fireworks of the exchanges between the central characters or the earthy commentary of the Nurse are available, there are no difficulties for the author. Elsewhere, the ...
... danger. Whatever the trappings of Gallic splendour around Richard's throne, he is surrounded by powerful barons, and unless he can sustain successfully the role of primus inter pares he will not survive. Bolingbroke's understanding and ...
... dangerous ambition lurking in this Bolingbroke whose sentence he commutes. In the next scene he shows he has not only observed Bolingbroke's courtship of the common people but deduced its political direction: Off goes his bonnet to an ...
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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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