SHAKESPEARE IN THE LIGHT OF THE THEORY OF NEW HISTORISM AND PRESENTISM: HISTORY AND POLITICS INSTEAD OF THEMES AND CHARACTERS IN HISTORY PLAYS AND TRAGEDIES
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https://doi.org/10.7251/NSK2116023DKeywords:
Shakespeare, character, society, history, politicsAbstract
Due to changes in philosophical and political attitudes during the last thirty years of the twentieth century, new literary crtics that appeared advocated the idea that everything happens in space and time and that there are no values that cannot be changed. Character analysis critics treat the characters in the plays as unique individuals; they believe that the action of the play derives from the character, overlooking the character’s role as an expression of the society and culture described in the play. For critics of new historicism and cultural materialism, however, the context of society, that is, the way in which the power functions in a society and the nature of social justice are very important, and the characters are first viewed in that context. Critics of presentism see Shakespeare`s plays as a product of a certain time in history, but which are read now, in a world with different social relations.
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