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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... Political and social views. I. Title. PR2989.G73 1983 822.3'3 83-3750 ISBN 0-389-20394-7 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Biddies Ltd, Guildford and King's Lynn CONTENTS Preface 1. Early Work 2. The Major Histories: Richard.
... political progress on stage. He is continually ahead of the game, and we are allowed to know all that he knows. He is, as John Masefield said, the one great intellect in the play, and it is his supple wit which makes him what Shaw ...
... Political Characters of Shakespeare, p. 65. 8. Palmer's memorable phrase, p. 79. 9. In the first of the series Plays in Performance, on Richard III (Junction, London, 1981), Julia Hankey shows the success of a series of great actors in ...
... political realities about him makes him Richard's appropriate foil. The other plays examine the effects of power struggles and public roles upon various holders of high political office; through the plays there steadily emerges the most ...
... political success comes with his steady denial to himself of all individual emotions in public. This concern of Shakespeare's with the private man and the exterior he chooses to show to those around him explain the unevenness of Richard ...
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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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