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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... fact, Shakespeare's first successful fusion of his interest in the different faces of men with his developing powers over dramatic material and the language. These plays are his first intensive examination of man in high and important ...
... fact that with Richard's deposition Shakespeare's main interest is at an end; thus this section springs to life only with Richard's death scene and with Bolingbroke's ambivalent reception of the news of that death in the final speech ...
... fact an oblique attack upon Richard himself. A moment later, under the pretext of assuring Mowbray that he may speak freely, Richard reminds Bolingbroke of how far he stands from the throne: Were he my brother, nay, my kingdom's heir ...
... facts of history but in what Coleridge called 'a history of the human mind'. It is necessary to appreciate this to savour the drama in this apparently static play. The tension derives not from the events which surround the rise of one ...
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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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