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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... give some preliminary indications of the same inner tensions at work in earlier English drama, and in plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries. Such tensions lie at the root of creative writing. This writing, interpretative rather than ...
... give its audience the strongest and most immediate impression of human stress, the fullest sense of the sadness and delight, the terror and the beauty, of being alive. In this process, the actors are representatives of the audience ...
... give them that special experience, born of mingled pleasure and disturbance, which is the gift of all good drama. In short, I would insist that a scrupulous, sincere and reasonably humble attempt to understand the nature of the plays as ...
... gives a neat and typically ingenious display of the incongruity, the strife, between these two sides of Man's nature, with first an account of how Wit is constantly opposed and frustrated by Will, and then Will's parallel claim to be ...
... give her, in Man's eyes, a special and even awesome quality, and so love could take on something of a supernatural force, an essential basis for that 'love-worship' which marks the Elizabethan romance tradition, as expressed by Pettie ...