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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... shows, the Elizabethans, like earlier and later people, knew such inner struggles, and expressed them and their ... show the effects of the human conflict known to Shakespeare and to his audience upon his plays as conceived and as ...
... shows it working within the play. To examine this process is my chief purpose in Part 3, as also to show that sometimes it does not happen completely; for example, the first half of Measure for Measure suggests and portrays complexities ...
... show the workings of human conflict as such; I am writing of the real Shakespeare-the-dramatist who was always ... shows those situations themselves changing under the pressures of the characters. It is thus necessary to accept the ...
... show that there is no essential 'gap' between Shakespeare's plays and a modern audience. Indeed, it may even show that financial success does at times reward professional wisdom and integrity. The vital thing remains to be said. This ...
... shows this clearly. Elyot translates 'the versis of Claudiane, the noble poet, whiche he wrate to Theodosius and Honorius, emperours of Rome', as precepts which, he says, should be hung up in the bedchamber of a noble man. The second of ...