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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... effects of the human conflict known to Shakespeare and to his audience upon his plays as conceived and as performed; to do this in proper depth, I have considered it essential, also, to give some preliminary indications of the same ...
... effects of such tensions on individuals and on their fellows, and since drama, from its recorded beginnings, has been basically devoted to the direct portrayal or suggestion of the encounters of human life, offering its audience a ...
... effects, and that this becomes apparent only if the plays are constantly considered in relation to other plays in the canon rather than in isolation; an instance is the variety of comic and serious dramatic results of the reason ...
... effects are the source of his unique quality as a dramatist, and they will be seen to be active throughout his plays ... effect of each play upon his audiences and still today upon us. I must make it clear that I do not suggest that ...
... effects of the celestiall orbe; that he should ride vpon the Seas, and search, and passe ouer the liquid floods; that he should vendicate[claim] both earth and sea vnto his profit, and domineere ouer the beasts, and know the nature of ...