Duke Vincentino in Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure". The Playwright Within The Play (eBook)

Mette Freidel (Autor)

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2017 | 1. Auflage
22 Seiten
GRIN Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-668-50985-6 (ISBN)

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Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,0, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, language: English, abstract: With Duke Vincentino, Shakespeare has created a very ambiguous character in "Measure for Measure", one that seems to split critics up into two camps – Is this Duke a figure of Christian Providence, who has complete control over his surroundings? Or should he be seen as a coward with inappropriate judgement will try to discuss it along the following research question: To what extent does Duke Vincentino act as a “playwright at work within the play”?

As a basis for the analysis I am going to introduce the Duke in a characterization, which will include a closer look at his personal traits as well as his relations with other characters in the play. After this overview of the Duke’s character and affairs, I will advance to analyzing them in context of the play more deeply. This part will consist of three subchap
ters, in which I will go into more detail of the different roles the Duke takes on throughout the play. First, in ‘The Disguise (Acts I.I-II.II)’, I will elaborate on the Duke’s motives to officially leave the city, but actually stay in disguise as Friar Lodowick. I will then proceed to the analysis of Acts II.II-IV, in which I hope to shine a light on the way the Duke pulls the strings of the other characters and thereby controls the plot, with a focus on his schemes that are often referred to as the ‘bedtrick’ and the ‘headtrick’. Finally, I am going to discuss the denouement in Act V.
Conclusively, I am going to discuss whether the Duke’s manipulations contribute to an achievement of justice or not. To finalize the conclusion, I am going to refer back to and possibly answer the research question presented above.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.8.2017
• Verlagsort: München
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Sekundarstufe I+II
• Schlagworte: Duke • measure • Play • Playwright • Shakespeare • vincentino • within
• ISBN-10: 3-668-50985-9 / 3668509859
• ISBN-13: 978-3-668-50985-6 / 9783668509856