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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... feelings, the general outlook on life, of the Elizabethans, they can add much to our grasp of the plays; otherwise, they throw light (sometimes a very curious light) mainly upon the critic or his society. This may certainly be valuable ...
... feeling and intelligent effort to present that understanding directly in words and action on the stage, will certainly show that there is no essential 'gap' between Shakespeare's plays and a modern audience. Indeed, it may even show ...
... feeling thus: I know my bodie's of so frail a kind, As force without, feavers within can kill; I know the heavenly nature of my minde, But 'tis corrupted both in wit and will: I know my Soule hath power to know all things, Yet she is ...
... feeling kind, together with a third kind in which these two are under the control of reason: it then follows that this control of reason marks the highest form of human existence: For like as god gouerneth thinges manyfolde, moueable ...
... feelings], are traitours, rebells, and as factions and infectious persons, which disturbe the peace of the Common ... feeling] in the whiche man is partener with beastes, for why[,] al beastes haue lifes sensible. The third, is called ...