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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... rational ways of achieving the balanced just and worthy life. Whytinton, the earlier translator of Cicero's De Officiis, stresses the importance of reason, and links it to God's purpose, in his 'exhortacyon'to his readers: And for as ...
... rational thought and choice make himself what he sees as the balanced, 'great-souled' man, carefully poised between excesses of many kinds. John Wilkinson's version of 1547 (the only known Elizabethan version in English) is ...
... rational judgements, but that these judgements are never purely rational, for they are affected always, to some degree at least, by irrational forces beyond the complete control of reason; that, indeed, completely rational judgements ...
... rational and the irrational, and the woman felt herself to be both the feared temptress and the adored partner. Elizabethan man, particularly, saw himself at one level as a soul linked to a body through the lusts of which a woman could ...
... rational basis; by transcending reason true love could be achieved, but by deserting reason a man could be dragged down to the bestiality of lust, or its equivalent, the bestiality of jealousy. For an Elizabethan, a man in love was ...