Shakespearean Drama Einar Goyo Ponte
William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564. Six years ago Elizabeth I of England has been crowned the reins and lead this nation, a rival of the English Empire of Philip II. Never marry and rule in a male environment formed by Protestant priests, nobles, diplomats and pirates.
Shakespeare's contemporary Francis Bacon, Lope de Vega and Christopher Marlowe, who shared and played theaters and arguments for their works in English drama then.
In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway. Five years later comes to London to seek work in the theaters of the capital. At that time running to Mary Stuart, pretender to the throne of England for being the daughter of Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon and advocate for English Catholics. The decapitated.
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| Elizabeth I |
In 1590, he began writing the series of historical plays about Henry VI. Shakespeare devoted to the history of his country several important works: Henry VI, Richard II, Richard III, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VIII and The Story of King Juan . Of them are important Richard II and Richard III , by the contrast between them: the latter is a sacrificial king, defeated, which preserves the nobility until the end, while the other is one of the first and most unique villains Shakespearean, or Duvignaud the lists, criminal or anomic personalities. Prince Richard II is a deformed, cowardly, scheming, cruel, to murder, slander and torture to gain power, a striking portrait of what would be a full implementation of the Machiavellian doctrine book Prince. It also highlights Henry V (Henry V), which describes the warrior king who discovers the values \u200b\u200bof service and responsibility to its people, hours before going into battle.
In 1592, he wrote the first of his great comedies: The Comedy of Errors . The following are among the most important Love's Labours Lost, Dream of a Summer Night, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, The storm. are common to the majority of them intrigues and numerous love affairs such as Hermia and Lysander, Helena and Demetrius. Thus we have the trio of couples Love's Labours Lost, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of the Shrew and Twelfth Night. They also highlight the charming wit and intelligence of the heroines.
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| Shylock and Jessica in The Merchant of Venice |
These include the Portia of The Merchant , without whose intervention would not be resolved happily conflict principal. The Beatrice of Much Ado rivals the ingenuity of her partner Benedict, with traces of cynicism and pre-feminism, as well as hover in the Catalina The Taming of the Shrew, which exposes a fierce battle of the sexes, with triumph women using the artifice of the theater within the theater, Shakespearean dialectic of being and seeming, which, in Twelfth Night disturbing peaks acquired by proposing an exchange of sex: Viola, the heroine must pretend to be saved and so man seduces his partner and rival in love, Orsino is hurt while being attracted to a man who is actually Viola in disguise. In The Merry Wives of Windsor Four women joined their wits to defend her marriage to harassment professional seducer infatuated Sir John Falstaff, one of the most unique and great characters of Shakespeare. Appears in one of the historical dramas and revives in this comedy in which he plays wit sensual, appetite, lust, cynicism, Blithe Spirit and that very important element in Shakespeare: the awareness of the theatrical. That is, characters whose psychologies, avatars and developments lead them to discover the illusory nature of the world or reality and to express the paradoxical notion that this is a form of theater, another version, a little more concrete, but also fleeting, of fiction. "All in the world is fun. The man is a born fool, "says Falstaff in the epilogue of The Merry Wives . In this quasi-philosophical conception of the theatrical impulse arises undoubtedly Shakespearean gender mixing, the tragic and the comic, the ridiculous to the sublime, the grotesque heroic. So two of these comedies inhabited by two of the most formidable Shakespearean villains: the powerful Shylock The Merchant of Venice , vengeful Jewish moneylender, cruel tyrant of his daughter, who uses the financial misfortune of Antonio, the Venetian merchant to collect old insults that lead to the brink of death, the relentless pressure of the Jew; the other is the Don Juan de Much Ado About Nothing , who, jealous of Don Pedro, an intriguing plot that harms an innocent and almost undoes all the joy of loving couples in history. Another common feature of almost every game is the "play within a play" which in Shakespeare is not limited to design a representation within the representation, but to reveal the characters somehow know fictionalized, representing "roles" in the great drama that is life, we are able to change and to assume various disguises for the various acts required to represent human life. So the parties make sense Love's Labours Lost, costumes and proof of genius that Portia's late father imposed on his daughter's suitors, and false trial lawyer (Portia in disguise) which saves Antonio and condemning Shylock in The Merchant , with the same resource beat Don Juan in Much Ado and Falstaff in The Merry Wives, and the resource is left for Viola to find her twin brother Sebastian in Twelfth Night .
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| Hamlet |
1595 is the year of commencement of his great tragedies, dramas most represented in literature. Everything starts with Romeo and Juliet , exaltation of youthful love victimized by hatred between families and random traps. Also the use of theater emerges in this book, it should pretend dead Juliet to meet her lover, beyond the fate of Verona. In 1600 comes Hamlet, for many his most haunting and enigmatic character in Shakespearean gallery. Is a teenager, the ghost of his father to claim seeks revenge against her mother and brother, who was murdered. To carry out its mission fakes crazy in the late implementation of revenge / justice perpetrators die and innocent in huge quantities: Ophelia, Hamlet's beloved, who is crazy about his father's death at the hands of her boyfriend, who mistook him for his wicked uncle, Laertes, the brother of that, in deadly duel against the hero , Gertrude, Hamlet's mother, Claudius, his uncle and usurper of the throne, and Hamlet himself. Meanwhile there is the unresolved enigma of whether Hamlet is really mad or not, as also occurs in Titus Andronicus (1593-1594), a precursor to tragedy. It also shares with it the theme of revenge, and obsessive detail of the play within a play. Hamlet, which makes the "paper" crazy, mounted a play that plays the murder of his father to induce his mother and his uncle the whistle at her. How many fictions can fit into a fiction? Jorge Luis Borges draws our attention to this in his essay "Magic partial Quixote."
After come Othello (1604?), Whose protagonist is a Muslim as Aaron Titus but unlike noble one, but manipulated to the real crime Aaron reverb, another formidable villains from Shakespeare: Iago. As Aaron, takes evil as original nature, like him, never arrepiente y vence espantosamente sobre sus víctimas. Son personajes donde se concentran las figuras de la anomia y de la personalidad criminal de las que habla Duvignaud. Su moral, su sistema de valores –si es que existen- son absolutamente distintos y otros de los nuestros (o al menos de sus espectadores y compañeros en escena); Rey Lear (1606), otro gran loco shakesperiano, otro gran padre desmesuradamente equivocado, como Tito, signados por una hybris particular que vuelve a poner la anomia en el ruedo, la cual los destruye sin misericordia. Al lado de Lear hay dos personajes enormes: la hija noble, víctima de su padre y del destino, Cordelia, que nos recuerda a la mutilada Lavinia de Titus, y Edmundo, otro hermano Iago and Aaron, destructive, false, intriguing, who uses the appeal of theater for his benefit. There is a theme that ties these "are not what they seem." They are actors, fiction, costumes that deceive their fellows. Edmundo knows no repentance. Nor can know Macbeth (1609-1910), who however, Shakespeare gives you something you do not have their brothers consciousness. Here the soulless, despicable, anomic is his wife, Lady Macbeth, accomplice or author of countless crimes to obtain and retain power. Macbeth has something that sets him apart from his fellow villains: it's almost invincible or superhuman. They must come into play omens, magic, The gloom in order to defeat him. Evil as a real power that has as much or more chance of winning the good cry is what it seems Macbeth. If it were not back the "theatricality" is superimposed. When you see that everything is against him, Macbeth discovers that life, the world, the promises, the prophecies of the witches, the power are ghosts, fleeting and vain illusions. "Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." It is ominous version of the final phrase of Falstaff, now at the mouth of Macbeth.
In Winter's Tale (1613) find other work where tragedy and comedy go hand in hand. Othello is in it an even more delusional and dangerous as it needs no Iago who incites jealousy, King Leontes, there are many innocent victims, a daughter scorned, exile, regret and even a wonderfully moving theater scene (in the Shakespearean philosophical ideological sense) of resurrection.
End of the cycle is Storm (1611), with Prospero, the last great Shakespearean father, and the last role that Shakespeare represented on stage, who assisted of the magic that change roles, appearances, feigns death and resurrection, holds a singular revenge against his brother, who has banished years ago. Another daughter, as Lavinia, Juliet, Hermia, Cordelia and Portia: Miranda, who was to return in his throne, makes Prospero, his father, weave the fabric of all we will be spectators, while Prospero / Shakespeare writes , through two magical figures, a light and air, clever and effective, such as Puck's Dream A Midsummer Night's called Ariel, and a slow, earthy, lascivious, governed by his instincts, he tried to rape Miranda, and which Prospero punishes him by submitting to their wishes. It's Caliban a late and more awkward son of Aaron, Iago or Edmund. In the middle are the human characters, almost unreal, moved to the breath of Prospero's discretion, almost shadows, like fairies and supernatural beings of Oberon and Titania subjects, or as fauns, nymphs and fairies fake Merry Wives of Windsor. Prospero / Shakespeare says near the end of the work: "We made the same tow dreams." An interesting exercise: compare the bridal Puck and Prospero in Dream and The Tempest . Without forgetting that the parliament of Prospero is the last William Shakespeare declaimed in a theater.
Cuando dice: “Ahora quedan rotos mis hechizos, y me veo reducido a mis propias fuerzas, que son pocas. Ahora, en verdad, podrías confinarme aquí o remitir a Nápoles. No me dejéis, ya que he recobrado mi ducado y perdonado al traidor en esta desierta isla por vuestro sortilegio, sino libradme de mis ataduras, con la ayuda de sus manos. Que un leve soplo de vuestro aliento llene mis velas, o sucumbirá mi propósito, que era agradaros. Ahora carezco de espíritus que me ayuden, de arte para encantar, y mi fin no tendrá esperanza, a menos que se alivie con su plegaria, la cual es de tal fuerza que seduce a la piedad misma, y absuelve de todas las faltas. Así vuestros pecados obtendrán forgiveness, and with your indulgence will my acquittal, "we may be reading or listening to your own will.