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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... action on a stage. Since personal discord is a matter of tensions (pleasant or unpleasant) in and between human beings, and of the effects of such tensions on individuals and on their fellows, and since drama, from its recorded ...
... action on the stage is to remind modern audiences, vividly and movingly, that they too know and share them, and to give them that special experience, born of mingled pleasure and disturbance, which is the gift of all good drama. In ...
... action and dialogue of the Biblical stories which he had so often heard in church. Moreover, he was the earliest Englishman, possibly, to taste the curious psychological experience which is the very essence of watching and hearing drama ...
... action and realised causes and foresaw consequences. As we shall see, this 'spectator experience' will be extremely important in considering later, and especially Shakespearean, plays. Following the plays of the religious cycles, there ...
... action, the struggle of Humanum Genus and his Good Angel, helped by the Christian Virtues of Humility, Patience, and so on, against his Bad Angel and the seven deadly sins; victory for the Good follows, then the backsliding of Man, and ...