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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... reaction until it disappeared entirely beneath a calculated public conduct. Continual contact with the whole canon over some thirty years has made me realise that it is not just in the history plays but in almost all of his work that ...
... reaction in 1592: How it would have joyed brave Talbot (the terror of the French) to think that after he had lain two hundred years in his tomb, he should triumph again on the stage and have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten ...
... reaction springing out of the dusty chronicles and down the centuries. Despite the leap in quality of many speeches and certain stage effects in Richard III, there is ample evidence that the play was conceived as the culmination of this ...
... reaction to the faithful Mowbray, who realises as well as Richard that his banishment is part of a political bargain the King has had to strike, is cruel and careless: It boots thee not to be compassionate; After our sentence plaining ...
... reaction as his great nobles watch anxiously is disastrously personal. As Gaunt's manner becomes increasingly that of an Old Testament prophet, Richard rounds on him peevishly: Gaunt: Landlord of England art thou now, not king, Thy ...
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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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