Role-playing in Shakespeare
The idea that the world is a theatre in which each individual human being plays out the part assigned to him by God, who is both the playwright and the producer of the drama of life, was one of the great commonplaces of the Renaissance and one to which Shakespeare alluded frequently.
Shakespeare’s plays, however, transformed this familiar notion from a cliché to a fertile source of invention. In th...
The idea that the world is a theatre in which each individual human being plays out the part assigned to him by God, who is both the playwright and the producer of the drama of life, was one of the great commonplaces of the Renaissance and one to which Shakespeare alluded frequently.
Shakespeare’s plays, however, transformed this familiar notion from a cliché to a fertile source of invention. In th...
