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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... becomes so insistent upon one's theme that one ignores all other considerations, except as they may be treated as lesser threads in one's own tapestry. I have tried to remain aware of the danger throughout: it would be ridiculous to ...
... become such a prominent feature of his major work. However, he makes slight and intermittent use of the opportunities available: his stagecraft, like his other skills, is undeveloped, though we can see signs everywhere of the hammering ...
... become an elaborate and extended play within the play. Richard alone is permitted direct contact with the audience; when Shakespeare is more confident of complex material, Lady Macbeth and Banquo will be permitted soliloquies alongside ...
... become familiar as the play proceeds: Richard mouthing righteousness with 'goblin solemnity' 8 in public, then hugging himself in a private glee which he shares with us. The interest comes from the variety, daring, and increasingly ...
... become preoccupied increasingly with warring elements within a single personality, with the different and sometimes contradictory demands which life will make upon that personality. Some men, like Henry V, will opt consciously for ...
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Othello | |
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Macbeth | |
Julius Caesar Antony and Cleopatra | |
The Late Romances | |
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