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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... earlier for Hastings, Clarence and the superstitious Edward IV. 4 Richard himself owes much to the devices of a cruder theatre. He begins by acknowledging his debt to 'the murderous Machiavel'. There are obviously connections also with ...
... earlier outrageous performance in wooing Anne. Because it is a repetition and because the wooing is conducted at second hand, the scene is much less effective than the earlier one. It has an elaborate, artificial quality, characterised ...
... earlier than the play used to be placed. 6. Shakespeare's Early Tragedies, p. 57. 7. Political Characters of Shakespeare, p. 65. 8. Palmer's memorable phrase, p. 79. 9. In the first of the series Plays in Performance, on Richard III ...
... earlier play. Such passages of obviously ineffective writing are rare in the important sections of the play. The importance of the garden scene, for instance, has been too much stressed. Its elaborate symbolical representation of ...
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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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