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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