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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... less effective, stages of the play when his outrageous goals have been achieved. It is a recipe for dramatic success, and one can see the attraction for Elizabethan dramatists of the Machiavellian villain, growing out of, but less ...
... less taste for action, produces the greatest tension of the play by setting his indulgences of his private self against his public predicament in a world of blood and iron. Romeo has no such concern: poetry in him fuses unforced with ...
... individual man in the position of highest power, the unevenness of the play is easier to understand and there will be less temptation to explain away what is simply poor or careless writing by invoking larger theories of allegory.
... less incisive onlookers at the game. His mistake is that he will not consent to play that game himself: he makes here no attempt to dissemble private feeling with any of the public shows which he needs to make. He shows indeed a ...
... less value is my company Than your good words. Not until he is confronted by York and forced to justify his invasion does he speak at length. Then he speaks with the logic he always displays on such occasions, the kernel of his argument ...
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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 | |