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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... literature. 3. Characters and characteristics in literature. I. Title. PR2989.B66 1987 822.3'3 87-4668 ISBN 0-7102-1164-3 British Library CIP Data also available Contents Introduction Part 1 Forms of human conflict (a) Soul-body.
S. C. Boorman. Contents. Introduction Part 1 Forms of human conflict (a) Soul-body (b) Immortal-mortal (c) Greatness-littleness (d) Freedom-fate (e) Reason-unreason (control of self—lack of control) (f) Reason-love (man and woman) (g) ...
... unfailing patience, encouragement and sympathetic understanding of my wife, and it is therefore to her that it must most justly, and most gratefully, be dedicated. PART ONE Forms of human conflict (a) Soul-body Our analysis.
... soul, presenting in its incongruity a challenge to Man in his daily life. All the traditional teaching of the Church on this matter stressed the difference between the soul and the body. The new and growing humanism which the age also ...
... soul and body, and so capable of being at once far more than mere Man, and far less. With the awareness of this basic disparity was joined the more immediate, everyday knowledge (reinforced by religion) that the body would one day die ...