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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... 2 Comedy and tragedy in drama Notes Indexes 1 Elizabethan (non-dramatic) references 2 Shakespeare's plays: (a) titles (b) characters 3 Non-Shakespearean plays: titles 4 General Introduction Human beings, by the very fact of being human,
S. C. Boorman. Introduction. Human beings, by the very fact of being human, have always known the pressures within themselves of conflicting impulses, purposes and needs. This complex of personal inner forces I shall denote throughout ...
... fact that such forms of social human incongruity (matters, for example, of disorder-order or public man—private man) are always presented dramatically by Shakespeare through personal struggles, on which the primary emphasis is placed ...
... fact, as the title suggests, a book of precepts based on Aristotle, of a kind popular with Elizabethans, like Bald-win's 'Treatise' of the same date. But it keeps close enough to its source to convey Aristotle's main ethical views, and ...
... fact he quotes far more often from Cicero on particular points. The general result is that, from his two main sources and, one should add, from his own experience of state affairs, Elyot offers a thesis in which the self-control of the ...