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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... given' nature, with its accompanying forms of inner pressure, is presented by Shakespeare as modifying his situation; the situation thus modified is in turn shown to affect the working of his human discord - and so on, in an often ...
... given me great pleasure, unaffected by those periods of personal frustration, doubt and irritation which always (I am told) disturb the domestic harmony of an author. That it has reached its present form, however imperfect, without any ...
... given free will, and in any case, however much philosophy and theology might debate the meaning of 'free will', an Elizabethan, like ourselves today, 'knew' that he had a power to choose among the many possible paths presented by his ...
... given King Edward this comment in the same moral tradition: Knowe ye therefore, that I deeme him onely to be happy that by Reason can rule his wyttes, not suffering hym selfe to be caried into vayne desires: in whiche pointe wee do ...
... given of it; neither what it is, working such divers effects, neither wherever it is, proceeding of so diverse causes, neither whence it will, being never satisfied. Therefore no earthly thing but some supernal [divine] power sure it is ...