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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... seen as the result of the writer's urge to express to other human beings, directly or indirectly, and by means of verbal skills, his or her awareness of the business of living and of dying, as the writer experiences or conceives that ...
... seen in Coriolanus, Troilus, Parolles and Falstaff in their plays. Thus Part 3 will also demonstrate that this examination of Shakespeare's awareness and use of personal discords offers a way of seeing his dramatic work as a whole ...
... seen as a necessary accompaniment to the 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 ...
... seen. The Christian religion, beginning with the teaching of its Founder, had always emphasised the 'soul-body' incongruity of Man in terms of its practical consequences for everyday life on this earth; in these terms, the soul ...
... seen in the Elizabethan tendency to dwell on the battle in Man between 'wit' (intelligence) and 'will' (impulse, desire), which gave much scope for the witty handling of the anomalies of Man's situation. The first part of Nicholas ...