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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... Reason-unreason (control of self—lack of control) (f) Reason-love (man and woman) (g) Reason-fantasy (h) Private man-public man (i) Order-disorder (j) Justice-mercy Part 2 (a) Human conflict in early English drama (b) Human conflict in ...
... Reason-unreason. (control. of. self—lack. of. control). So far we have been considering forms of human incongruity arising largely from a generally accepted religious view of life, but these were only a part of the total stress which an ...
... reason and unreason was a vital part of existence, and that the outcome of it determined the success or failure of a man's life. In 1603 an earnest (but anonymous) religious writer warned: Passions or perturbations, are vyolent motions ...
... reason and unreason was reinforced by that other great moral influence on Elizabethan opinion, classical moral philosophy, and especially the teaching of Cicero in the De Officiis and of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. The former work ...
... reason we perceyue[,] understande and remembre[,] which ornament of reason amonge all creatures here mortall onely is gyue to man. 13 N. Grimalde's Dedication of his translation of the De Officiis to the Bishop of Ely, Thomas Goodrich ...