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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... death, Richard comments to us with a whimsical, halfblasphemous wit: Simple, plain Clarence! I do love thee so, That I will shortly send thy soul to heaven, If heaven will take the present at our hands. It is the design with which we ...
... death or Richard's half-lascivious, half-contemptuous description of young Elizabeth's womb as 'that nest of spicery' does this section of the play splutter into life. Shakespeare has the problem that, having shown us Richard at his ...
... death of the lovers at the outset. Moreover, the lovers fall because they are 'star-cross'd', not because of defects in themselves or their love. This tragedy of lyric emotion stands clearly distinguished from the great group of plays ...
... death to the attitudes struck in the early histories, a contrast which looks forward to the achievements to come. As Mercutio looks at his death-wound, Shakespeare knows now the understatement, the simplicity which cuts through even a ...
... death scene and with Bolingbroke's ambivalent reception of the news of that death in the final speech. The truth is that the scenes in which Shakespeare treats of his central interest — those in which Richard and Bolingbroke are ...
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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 | |