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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... figure than from a switch in conception from his original design. That design, as worked out in Henry VI, had great success; Thomas Nashe records the reaction in 1592: How it would have joyed brave Talbot (the terror of the French) to ...
... figure: as Then since the heavens have shaped my body so, Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it. I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this word 'love', which greybeards call divine, Be resident in men like one another, And ...
... figure as the hired gunman is for the maker of Hollywood westerns; the convention means that his amorality does not need explanation. He is a more flexible and individual development of the Vice of the old moralities, so that ...
... figure, but Richard's bond with the audience here is uncomplicated and superbly effective for the more limited theme it accommodates. Alongside this, Shakespeare gives to his Machiavellian villain all the qualities to secure that ...
... figure who loses dynamism and conviction once the crown has been achieved. Significantly, the creation with whom Richard is most often compared is Macbeth, that other high-reaching murderer who finds the forbidden fruit rotting in his ...
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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 | |