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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... feeling and public office, and by the different qualities which characterise the admirable private man and the successful public man. Only in the early and middle comedies does he turn aside from the exploration of the theme, though ...
... feeling. Hamlet for instance, is a private man placed in a public situation for which he feels his contemplative, reflective nature profoundly unfitted. Othello is a man supremely confident of broad public effects who flounders in the ...
... feelings so openly and so pithily towards us that we are aware of his tongue in his cheek, his delighted contempt, even as he casts his eyes down and utters the doggerel phrases of political progress on stage. He is continually ahead of ...
... feelings. Bolingbroke's political success comes with his steady denial to himself of all individual emotions in public. This concern of Shakespeare's with the private man and the exterior he chooses to show to those around him explain ...
... feeling with any of the public shows which he needs to make. He shows indeed a deliberate contempt for such considerations. When the patient York is driven to remind him of the implications of his seizure of what are now Bolingbroke's ...
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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 | |