Human Conflict in ShakespeareRoutledge, 30 mars 2021 - 340 sidor 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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... common ground upon which we today can meet them, and understand both themselves and their outward expression of that conflict. Believing as I do that there is now a special need to assert anew what I would call the true human approach ...
... common gouernment, like reason in the nature of man, shall rule al the multitude.14 Thus Grimalde accepts the insistence on the importance of reason that runs throughout the De Officiis, and develops the social implications in a way ...
... Common-wealth, and being desperate and irreconciliable enimies vnto the State, doe striue to dismount the Prince from her Throne, and vtterly to ruinate and subuert the kingdome, which God by his holy spirit hath begun to plant within ...
... common and unfailing interest to all Elizabethans, women as well as men. In its simplest form, this personal struggle could be felt as a plain contrast between what may be called the 'worldly' view of love and the 'romantic' view (and ...
... common humanity. But in a society as closely-knit as that of Elizabethan England (and of course one must think especially of Elizabethan London), the similar attitudes, hopes, fears and perplexities produced by this inner personal ...