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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... living and of dying, as the writer experiences or conceives that awareness. Creative writing is therefore essentially concerned with human conflict, its trials, its delights and its demands, and as this conflict is known to every ...
... living exponents of the dramatist's awareness of Man's struggles, expressed in the play for the audience to recognise and share with him. Thus the dramatist's text, words-in-combination conceived within the special added dimension of ...
... living quality of those characters, however selective or extraordinary it may be, their human reality which all audiences instinctively recognise, and which makes them dramatically effective in their particular situations. After a ...
... living in a world that, like Shakespeare's, is at once beautiful, amusing and threatening. The present work may serve to show that to allow Shakespeare's plays to display such fundamental complexities in action on the stage is to remind ...
... living conditions, the prevalence of the plague, the scarcity of food in the 1590s and 1600s, and the still medieval state of Elizabethan medicine, every Elizabethan must have been acutely conscious of death as a close companion in his ...