Shakespeare and the Common Man
Language: English
Published by Millrace, 2001
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- Title
- Shakespeare and the Common Man
- Author
- Wilson, Graham
- Publisher
- Millrace
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1902173112
- ISBN 13
- 9781902173115
When Graham Wilson, for many years head of English at the King's School in Macclesfield and English Literature moderator for the OCR examining board, first came to teach Shakespeare's plays, he was struck how the very name could turn off even the brightest students. Realising that they, as he had done, instinctively put Shakespeare on the side of the Establishment, he set about convincing them that Will was a rebel, if a covert one:
"In a world of the rack and the `servant fee'd' it was clearly dangerous to say what you feel and equally politically advantageous to say what was expected. If the playwright wants to tell the truth as he sees it, this restriction places him in a difficult position. Shakespeare overcame the dilemma by appearing to say what he ought but, by applying a variety of strategies, allowing the audience to see what he felt and meant. The voices he employs for this purpose are, more often than not, ill-considered characters -- rogues, fools, clowns, powerless women and, in one case at least, a boy. It is through them that he raises equivocation to a high art.'
In this entertaining, often provocative series of essays, Wilson explores the way in which Shakespeare managed these oblique attacks on the abusers of power and privilege. He looks at, inter alia, the development of the Fool from jig-maker to judge; women as the disregarded voice of reason; Macbeth - what the Porter saw; Hamlet - a fractured fool; King Lear - a study in anarchy; Othello - a comedy lost; Caliban, kings and Joseph Conrad; A Winter's Tale and other fictions."
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From the Back Cover
It's time to reclaim Shakespeare from the middle classes and the politicians. He's been used as their mouthpiece for far too long. In Shakespeare and the Common Man, Graham Wilson, English Literature moderator for the OCR Examining Board and author of Macc and the Art of Long Distance Walking and Mickey Braddock's Works Do, offers new insights into what the playwright may really have been up to.
So, Wilson on Shakespeare ...
The man
"Little is known of his life but one thing's for sure. He was never made Head Boy of the Grammar School in Stratford-upon-Avon."
The plays
"Far from being the pompous voice of Authority, they show evidence of dissent and rebellion."
The protagonists
"The play open with the not unfamiliar scene of the man who holds the cards exercising his feudal rights to do whatever he wants. This combination of Lear and Othello might have had even those two exponents of unstable behaviour shaking their heads."
Cover illustration by Robin Hidden
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