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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... death as a close companion in his daily life. Yet, like Man in every age, he held death at bay in the recesses of his mind, and usually lived as if he were immortal. So Thomas Nashe wrote in 1593: We see great men dye, strong men dye ...
... death, and yet hoped that death was not the end; he would have aspired to great and memorable achievements in this life (the Elizabethan age was an age of ambition), and yet have been constantly aware of his littleness and impermanence ...
... death through Christ's redemption of him on the Cross. He had to accept, as the drama showed, that the everyday fact of death and dissolution was no final fact at all, that the constant battle within himself between good and evil was a ...
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