Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cameron, John H.

Titel

Shakespeare's Politic Histories: The Italian Connection

Ist Teil von

• Shakespeare's Politic Histories, 2024, p.5-40

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Strategy in Shakespeare's plays is enlivened and enhanced through dramatic representation. Shakespeare does not merely state that the ends justify the means; instead, he dramatizes the means through which those ends are achieved and explores the nature of the ends being sought. He displays the dramatic potency inherent in strategy. The process of dramatization is often overlooked by critics who have focused on the dramatic analogies between Shakespeare and Machiavelli. Unlike most strategists, Shakespeare dramatizes how and why strategies succeed or fail instead of merely offering advice to that end. Shakespeare's first tetralogy explores the dramatic potential of politic stratagems. The First Tetralogy includes wonderfully dramatic and dynamic explorations of strategy, which actually give the plays a very particular kind of dramatic unity.