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much as Man and Nature, or man and man. Shock at this
departure from traditional vision and inclusive awareness was
often directed toward the figure of Machiavelli, who had merely
spelled out the new quantitative and neutral or scientific ideas
of force as applied to the manipulation of kingdoms.
Shakespeare’s entire work is taken up with the themes of
the new delimitations of power, both kingly and private. No
greater horror could be imagined in his time than the spectacle
of Richard II, the sacral king, undergoing the indignities of
imprisonment and denudation of his sacred prerogatives. It is in
Troilus and Cressida , however, that the new cults of fissile,
irresponsible power, public and private, are paraded as a cynical
charade of atomistic competition:
Take the instant way;