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Dualities in Shakespeare

Dualities in Shakespeare

Bodwell Smith, Marion

Paperback

Series: Heritage

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 148757309X
ISBN13: 9781487573096
Publisher: Univ Of Toronto Pr
Published: Dec 15 1966
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This is a study of particular aspects of particular works in a particular context. The context, in general terms, is the humanist search for a synthesis or order based on the reconciliation of oppositions, for unity in difference, in spite of growing philosophical disillusionment and social disruption. More and more successfully -- in artistic terms at least -- than his fellow-dramatists. Shakespeare was able to achieve such reconciliations by utilizing opposed forces as the ingredients of both dramatic and poetic tension and by resolving conflicts between them on the basis of inclusion rather than exclusion. For Shakespeare, there is always a soul of goodness in things evil and a dram of evil in the best; in all human experience, as in Friar Laurence's flower, poison hath residence, and medicine power. In exploiting the dramatic possibilities of the essential dualities of human existence, all the aspects of Shakespeare's art become increasingly involved.

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