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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... thee so, That I will shortly send thy soul to heaven, If heaven will take the present at our hands. It is the design with which we become familiar as the play proceeds: Richard mouthing righteousness with 'goblin solemnity' 8 in public ...
... Thou sober-suited matron all in black,' is a conceit plucked from outside the play, whereas Lady Macbeth pins herself in her nightmare world when she invokes night: Come thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke.
J. M. Gregson. Come thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, Hold! The power of this derives not just from a ...
... blood Should nothing privilege him nor partialise The unstooping firmness of my upright soul. He is our subject, Mowbray; so art thou: Free speech and fearless I to thee allow. Richard is put to the test in a political situation.
... thee not to be compassionate; After our sentence plaining comes too late. The banishment reminds us of Lear's abrupt dismissal of Kent years later; Richard like Lear can ill afford the loss of such a sturdy and vigorous supporter in the ...
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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 | |