Dark Keys to Shakespearean Conflict
Number of pages:
10
ABSTRACT:
(10 pp) In any tragedy, it is tension or conflict
which keeps the play moving. Modern jargon would
call it "spin" and "counterspin." In this
discussion we will compare the sources of conflict
in two plays, Othello and Macbeth. Iago and Lady
Macbeth are our major obsessives,the first prompted
by an apparent frustration with being passed over
in military command, yet disguising a darker
personal agenda, and the second, Lady Macbeth with
a compulsive need for power and title.
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