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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... court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamp'd and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent ...
... court murmurs approval over young Edward's brightness. When the boy evokes memories of Henry V with a determination 'to win our ancient right in France again' the wicked uncle is waiting with his sardonic verdict on such precocity ...
... court: but madness must await the author's maturity for fuller investigation. And Richard's remorse sits in a dream-world outside the rest of the character, a convenient morality ending to a figure who loses dynamism and conviction once ...
... court lurk murder, bitterness and danger. Whatever the trappings of Gallic splendour around Richard's throne, he is surrounded by powerful barons, and unless he can sustain successfully the role of primus inter pares he will not survive ...
... court' by farming his royal realm and leaving sweeping powers of taxation in the hands of his favourites goes off to his Irish wars. His reception of Gaunt's grievous sickness is characteristically witty, unguarded and misguided: as 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 | |
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