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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... present, such writing can achieve that combination of the universal and the particular, the universal in the particular, which evokes both its immediate and its lasting significance for the reader. The conscious techniques or intuitive ...
... 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 modern audiences, vividly and movingly, that they too know and share them, and to give them ...
... present and future were the eternal 'now', Man had for all practical purposes been given free will, and in any case, however much philosophy and theology might debate the meaning of 'free will', an Elizabethan, like ourselves today ...
... present incongruous nature of sin in his daily existence. It had entered the world through a fallen angel (how unsettling to be shown that even an angel could fall!) whose enmity to God, within God's foreknowledge, had been permitted to ...
... present day. The Banns continue by giving a summary of the main action, the struggle of Humanum Genus and his Good Angel, helped by the Christian Virtues of Humility, Patience, and so on, against his Bad Angel and the seven deadly sins ...