Shakespeare's Political Realism: The English History Plays
In: American political science review, Band 96, Heft 1, S. 177-178
ISSN: 0003-0554
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In: American political science review, Band 96, Heft 1, S. 177-178
ISSN: 0003-0554
In: Zeitschrift für Politik: ZfP, Band 49, Heft 4, S. 464-466
ISSN: 0044-3360
In: Teaching Political Science, Band 15, Heft 3, S. 98-103
In: Teaching political science, Band 15, Heft 3, S. 98
ISSN: 0092-2013
In: Interpretation, Band 40, Heft 2, S. 221-251
Students read Shakespeare's plays to learn about politics and office, love and friendship, and other great themes of human life. This education is the core of the 'Shakespeare myth,' which is that Shakespeare educates the complete human being-man, woman, and citizen. In this paper, I provide support for the truth of this myth by challenging the suggestion that the Shakespeare of the 1590s is a traditional theist who accepts the divine machinery of providential history, a secularizing Machiavel, or a protorepublican advocating living together as equals under the rule of law. Instead of these Shakespearian simplifications, I present Shakespeare as a philosophical liberal who is interested in legitimacy, stability, participation, security, and the place of the individual within society, but not in a way that requires the complete enlightenment of his age's political forms and religious life, or that denies enlightenment altogether. Adapted from the source document.
In: Journal for early modern cultural studies: JEMCS ; official publication of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 124-127
ISSN: 1553-3786
In: Političeskie issledovanija: Polis ; naučnyj i kul'turno-prosvetitel'skij žurnal = Political studies, Heft 3, S. 184-187
ISSN: 1026-9487, 0321-2017
In: Zbornik radova Filozofskog fakulteta, Heft 44-3, S. 101-121
ISSN: 2217-8082
Although writers of the English Restoration tragedy were not able to continue the path of the magnificent Renaissance tragedy and to become the worthy heirs of Shakespeare, they were experimenting with the verse and themes leaving a few impressive tragic scenes. Therefore, the heroic tragedy, as a dramatic kind, did not achieve an enviable aesthetic value. On the other hand, writers of comedies have managed to adjust the traditional elements to the new literary trends and to the atmosphere of the epoch. They have created a comedy of character and humor with an appropriate and realistic prose dialogue full of wit and refined language which was the best media for depicting cheerful and immoral aristocratic life of that time. Preserving and highlighting these dramatic elements, the dramatists of the Restoration have influenced the successors of a typical British comedy that will come to life again, in its true and pure comic form, in the works of Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde.
In: Političeskie issledovanija: Polis ; naučnyj i kul'turno-prosvetitel'skij žurnal = Political studies, Heft 3, S. 175-182
ISSN: 1026-9487, 0321-2017
In: American political science review, Band 96, Heft 1, S. 196
ISSN: 0003-0554
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 100, Heft 398, S. 168-170
ISSN: 0001-9909
'Township Plays,' 'Port Elizabeth Plays,' and 'Interior Plays' by Anthol Fugard are reviewed.
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 100, Heft 398, S. 168-170
ISSN: 1468-2621
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 183
In: Postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 49-86
ISSN: 2040-5979
AbstractPassion episodes such as the Buffeting are known for the powerful acts of compassion they occasioned within audiences through their performance of violence on the person of Jesus. Few critics, however, have considered that these episodes depend on antisemitic, Islamophobic, and anti-Black depictions of antagonists when engendering such emotional dispositions. By investigating the dynamics of mockery through a deeper look into the composite identities of Jesus's antagonists, this study reveals that these plays and the communities that produced them rely on a disingenuous stance of victimhood for their effectiveness. This 'victim play'—the collaborative community effort to claim the status of victim while simultaneously participating in the victimization of others—obscures that those who are attributed cruel acts of mockery are actually its targets. The powerful rhetorical strategies of the premodern English episodes are thus unearthed in this study.
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 100, Heft 398, S. 168-170
ISSN: 0001-9909