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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... standing prayer-book in hand between two clergymen, now links Buckingham with the rest of his dupes, as he accepts his destiny: Cousin of Buckingham, and you sage, grave men, Since you will buckle fortune on my back, To bear her burden ...
... stands clearly distinguished from the great group of plays written some ten years later, with their determined personal questionings into human aspirations. There is just a suggestion of material for such probings, which is instantly ...
... stands from the throne: Were he my brother, nay, my kingdom's heir, As he is but my father's brother's son. The excitement Richard feels in this intellectual play and in his first memorable image as he mentions his individual soul leads ...
... stand possess'd. Gaunt of course is a political enemy and Richard no doubt detects an element of humbug in his stance. As John Palmer2 points out: 'Richard saw in this Galahad of the sceptred isle a political enemy masquerading as a ...
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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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