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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... emphasis is placed. Indeed, his special gifts of perception and deep understanding of these struggles and their effects are the source of his unique quality as a dramatist, and they will be seen to be active throughout his plays ...
... emphasis, here, was becoming more social than religious, and was associated of course with the Elizabethan concern with the personal qualities which enabled a man to fill a position of authority.12 Cicero had approached his subject, the ...
... emphasis on the power and importance of reason. For example, towards the end of Aristotle's Book 1, Wilkinson paraphrases quite closely as follows: The Solle of man hath thre powers, one is called ye lyfe vegitable: in ye whiche man is ...
... emphasis on the necessary rule of reason, and deal directly with the qualities required by those who have the responsibilities of authority. Elyot refers to the ruler's special situation as 'private man'and 'public man': It is to be ...
... emphasis on the ideal character of a ruler: Elyot follows Aristotle closely in his analysis of the qualities required by a ruler, although in fact he quotes far more often from Cicero on particular points. The general result is that ...