Bloody, bold and resolute: Dimensions of power in Hamlet, King Lear and Macbeth

Tönel, Utku

This thesis argues that there is a symbiotic relationship between the actions of characters making use of different aspects of power, and the plot progression in three tragedies by William Shakespeare; Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, whose plots were built upon a problem of succession. For this purpose, the Aristotelian definition of tragedy was used in conjunction with the notion of power as defined by Steven Lukes throughout the study. To identify how this interaction helps build the dramatic structure, Thomas Pavel’s concept of move was utilised to pinpoint the plot progressionin the three ...Daha fazlası

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“My birthplace hate I, and my love’s upon / This enemy town”: The Politics of Enmity in Coriolanus

Tatar, Yağmur

This study focuses on the politics of enmity in relation to the concepts of carnival and politics of friendship in Shakespeare’s late Roman play, Coriolanus. It further investigates the politics of enmity that reconstructs Coriolanus as a play through the play’s interpretation of the carnival politics, sacred Roman ideals, and the dichotomy between the figures of the friend and the enemy.

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