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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... social conflicts', 1 where the results of human conflicts within and between individuals take on a wider significance; often the society in which these individuals live and strive upon the stage is itself shown by Shakespeare to be ...
S. C. Boorman. members of the audience can recognise as relevant to their own social experience. But I must stress the fact that such forms of social human incongruity (matters, for example, of disorder-order or public man—private man) ...
... social life of his time. The emphasis, here, was becoming more social than religious, and was associated of course with the Elizabethan concern with the personal qualities which enabled a man to fill a position of authority.12 Cicero ...
... social implications in a way more Elizabethan than Ciceronian. Certainly the association of reason and authority, the interpretation in this respect of individual man's struggle between reason and unreason in terms of the state, is a ...
... social attitudes. When we turn to these social attitudes, we must think more, although not exclusively, of the better educated Elizabethan, the man more personally concerned in the nature of social patterns and pressures. Such a man ...