Human Conflict in ShakespeareRoutledge, 30 mrt 2021 - 340 pagina's Conflict is at the heart of much of Shakespeare’s drama. Frequently there is an overt setting of violence, as in Macbeth, but, more significantly there is often ‘interior’ conflict. Many of Shakespeare’s most striking and important characters – Hamlet and Othello are good examples – are at war with themselves. Originally published in 1987, S. C. Boorman makes this ‘warfare of our nature’ the central theme of his stimulating approach to Shakespeare. He points to the moral context within which Shakespeare wrote, in part comprising earlier notions of human nature, in part the new tentative perceptions of his own age. Boorman shows Shakespeare’s great skill in developing the traditional ideas of proper conduct to show the tensions these ideas produce in real life. In consequence, Shakespeare’s characters are not the clear-cut figures of earlier drama, rehearsing the set speeches of their moral types – they are so often complex and doubting, deeply disturbed by their discordant natures. The great merit of this fine book is that it displays the ways in which Shakespeare conjured up living beings of flesh and blood, making his plays as full of dramatic power and appeal for modern audiences as for those of his own day. In short, this book presents a human approach to Shakespeare, one which stresses that truth of mankind’s inner conflict which links virtually all his plays. |
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S. C. Boorman. ROUTLEDGE LIBARY EDITIONS: STUDY OF SHAKESPEARE Volume 3 HUMAN CONFLICT IN SHAKESPEARE HUMAN CONFLICT IN SHAKESPEARE S. C. BOORMAN Front Cover.
... Shakespeare. Bibliography: p. Includes indexes. 1. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616—Characters. 2. Interpersonal conflict in literature. 3. Characters and characteristics in literature. I. Title. PR2989.B66 1987 822.3'3 87-4668 ISBN 0 ...
... Shakespeare's contemporaries Part 3 Human conf lia in Shakespeare Introduction Comedies English History plays Classical plays Tragedies Retrospect The last plays Appendix 1 Marlow's Doctor Faustus Appendix 2 Comedy and tragedy in drama ...
... Shakespeare's awareness and use of personal discords offers a way of seeing his dramatic work as a whole, despite the many differences between plays which have so often tended to fragment Shakespearean criticism. In Part 1 I have ...