Contemporising the Topos of Shakespearean Dramas: A Comparative (Re)Reading of Memory, Masculinity and Vengeance with special reference to William Shakespeare’s Tragedies and History Plays

Abstract

This present paper anticipates several prevalent topos of Shakespearean plays especially in tragedies and history plays where both the authors endeavor to (re)vivify issues like virility, madness, retaliation and memory. The play Henry V epitomizes undaunted mental or moral qualities and upstanding ardor and comes into the view of himself, a machinery of careful consideration of what will be necessary or may happen in the future. Together the authors zero in on how the abstractions of these terms facetiously , had sown in the faculty of sensibility, cognition, action of meditating and in the performance of putting something into operation after exquisite synthesis of the playwright so that he could so effortlessly orchestrate profligacy of humans for the characters to become destiny. Macbeth, Hamlet, Titus and so on are no malevolent rather one of the primordial sins among seven that overmatches the gracious traits overarchingly and get at conclusive decimation. The paper also homes in on deciphering the implicit hortative exhortation for all to chase yea and nay, disequilibrium and unreasonableness on no account so that the human psyches shall hold out subsist unblemished forevermore.

Keywords

• drama
• masculinity
• mnemonic