J. M. Gregson

Public and Private Man in Shakespeare (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The potential duality of human character and its capacity for dissembling was a source of fascination to the Elizabethan dramatists. Where many of them used the Machiavellian picture to draw one fair-faced scheming villain after another, Shakespeare absorbed more deeply the problem of the tensions between the public and private face of man.

Originally published in 1983, this book examines the ways in which this psychological insight is developed and modified as a source of dramatic power throughout Shakespeare's career. In the great sequence of history plays he examines the conflicting tensions of kingship and humanity, and the destructive potential of this dilemma is exploited to the full in the 'problem plays'. In the last plays power and virtue seem altogether divorced: Prospero can retire to an old age at peace only at the abdication of all his power. This theme is central to the art of many dramatists, but in the context of Renaissance political philosophy it takes on an added resonance for Shakespeare.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000349917
• Artikelnr.: 61164039

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. 1. Early Work 2. The Major Histories: Richard II
Henry IV
Parts 1 and 2 and Henry V 3. The Problem Plays: Troilus and Cressida
All's Well that Ends Well and Measure for Measure 4. Hamlet 5. Othello 6. King Lear 7. Macbeth 8. The Roman Plays: Julius Caesar
Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus 9. The Late Romances. Bibliography. Index.