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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... to convey the purpose or desire of the writer, may produce what can be called 'formations of language' that are in harmony with deepseated perceptions of the human spirit, and therefore in themselves may Introduction.
... desires of his physical body. Thus the practical guidance of Elizabethan religion was centred upon Man as a mixed creature in whom, by his inborn nature, reason and unreason, the mind (when it served the soul) and the body, were always ...
... desire, vnbridled ioy, immeasurable griefe, and extreame feare, which do carry the soule hither and thither, and in the ende so subdue the reasonable power thereof, as they make it servile and obedient vnto the sensuall appetite of the ...
... desire (that 'lust' which so many moralists considered the fatal enemy of reason, and hence the way by which a man could sink to the level of beasts) might drive him to use women solely for physical satisfaction, which was of course to ...
... desires of the beast, her very remoteness from reason could give her, in Man's eyes, a special and even awesome quality, and so love could take on something of a supernatural force, an essential basis for ... desire and love inevitably arose.