Madness and Corruption in Shakespeare: Hamlet and Macbeth

Abstract

Corrupting Influence of Power in Shakespeare’s Plays”. Lord Acton splendidly maintained that “power tends to corrupt. And absolute power corrupts completely.” Shakespeare’s plays qualify as such a lot of ingenious investigations into the implications of possessing power. The dramatic portrayal of madness will usually be a cathartic expertise for audiences. By looking at actors perform mentally disturbed characters, audiences ar freed momentarily to observe their own stresses, fears, pressures and pent-up needs showing emotion lived out of body through a example of life on the stage