Public and Private Man in ShakespeareRoutledge, 30.03.2021 - 258 Seiten 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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... Bolingbroke, but by the way in which Shakespeare built all the dramatic tension of the play's great scenes around this conflict. Richard, it seemed, indulged a whimsical individuality in a disastrous kingship, whereas Bolingbroke ...
... Bolingbroke the ambition is the end and his talents are the means.' Palmer notes that, after the crown is secured for Richard, 'the dreadful inspiration which carried him to the achievement of his purpose now visibly flags ... there ...
... Bolingbroke's rise entirely believable. This he achieves by showing us a Richard whose decline and a Bolingbroke whose advance are entirely credible in psychological terms. Richard's public conduct is an increasingly desperate avowal of ...
... Bolingbroke's ambivalent reception of the news of that death in the final speech. The truth is that the scenes in which Shakespeare treats of his central interest — those in which Richard and Bolingbroke are concerned, especially where ...
... Bolingbroke's attack on Mowbray is in 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 ...
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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 | |