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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... later people, knew such inner struggles, and expressed them and their results in many ways; therefore their human conflict forms a common ground upon which we today can meet them, and understand both themselves and their outward ...
... later, what was essentially a serious form of personal strife for Elizabethans could often be seen by them as part of the inescapable irony of human existence, and so as a subject for comedy. The importance attached by religion to the ...
... later ages up to our own) is developed a little later in a way that relates it, not just to the individual, but more widely, to the conception of authority in Elizabethan society. As Grimalde says: For in this world here beneath, are ...
... later; some fifty years after Grimalde, a preacher in a sermon at Faversham in Kent can be found expressing a similar conception: God hath giuen a man reason to be as a Prince to rule him, 15 it being ruled by the line of his Lawe: the ...
... later sixteenth century, stressed love rather than passion as the bond and attraction between the sexes, and love implied the man's devotion to the woman, not physical exploitation by him. Moreover, we must remember that love was ...