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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... suggests and portrays complexities of human stress which are then virtually ignored in the plotmanipulation and contrived ending of the second half (see pp. 91— 100 below). Shakespeare's use of Man's incongruities for comedy or for ...
... suggest that Shakespeare ever wrote a play consciously in order to show the workings of human conflict as such; I am writing of the real Shakespeare-the-dramatist who was always chiefly (but not exclusively) concerned with effective ...
... 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 especially his ...
... suggests: if Woman represented unreason, the attraction towards the irrational desires of the beast, her very remoteness from reason could give her, in Man's eyes, a special and even awesome quality, and so love could take on something ...
... anger, love, etc.) which modern science suggests is represented by the two halves of our brain. The basic conflict, in fact, is between control of the self and lack of control. This we still experience today, and this fact enables us.