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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... action, as he flings the Duke of Somerset's head upon the stage with the words, Speak thou for me and tell them what I did. In the middle of this play, he is permitted a soliloquy which shows him conscious of the skills necessary to ...
... action is taken up from Henry VI: Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious ...
... action which surges so exultantly when Richard drives the play forward: I had an Edward, till a Richard kill'd him; I had a Henry, till a Richard kill'd him: Thou hadst an Edward, till a Richard kill'd him; Thou hadst a Richard, till a ...
... action and attempts comedy in the manner of Plautus and Terence; Two Gentlemen of Verona shows clear links with the sonnets. The Taming of the Shrew revolves around the clash of temperaments, with choleric, peremptory Petruchio set ...
... action. At the end of Shakespeare's 'prentice period there is a tragedy of much greater interest. There are no doubts as to the outcome of Romeo and Juliet, for the Prologue announces the eventual death of the lovers at the outset ...
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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 | |