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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... Shakespeare has explored to the full the possibilities of the public-private tension both in dramatic construction and in exploring the complexities of human ... Shakespeare's. 1 EARLY WORK In the material from which Shakespeare constructed.
... Shakespeare realises as clearly as any plotter of horror films the connections in the dark recesses of the psyche between sex and violence: Nay, do not pause; for I did kill King Henry, But 'twas thy beauty that provoked me. Nay, now ...
... Shakespeare. Yet it is wholly of a piece with the play's design, just as the murder is artistically logical as the culminating outrage in Richard's escalating series of crimes. The boy Prince of Wales is shown as innocent, winning and ...
... Shakespeare takes refuge in the formal, ritualistic aspects of the fall everyone knew must come. The truth is that ... Shakespeare's deepest and most convincing study of ambition turned sour, Richard remains a bogey-man, a nightmarish ...
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Othello | |
King Lear | |
Macbeth | |
Julius Caesar Antony and Cleopatra | |
The Late Romances | |
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