Shakespeare on Love and LustColumbia University Press, 22.07.2002 - 248 Seiten The complex and sometimes contradictory expressions of love in Shakespeare's works—ranging from the serious to the absurd and back again—arise primarily from his dramatic and theatrical flair rather than from a unified philosophy of love. Untangling his witty, bawdy (and ambiguous) treatment of love, sex, and desire requires a sharp eye and a steady hand. In Shakespeare on Love and Lust, noted scholar Maurice Charney delves deeply into Shakespeare's rhetorical and thematic development of this largest of subjects to reveal what makes his plays and poems resonate with contemporary audiences. The paradigmatic star-crossed lovers of Romeo and Juliet, the comic confusions of couples wandering through the wood in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello's tragic jealousy, the homoerotic ways Shakespeare played with cross-dressing on the Elizabethan stage—Charney explores the world in which Shakespeare lived, and how it is reflected and transformed in the one he created. |
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... Elizabethan and Jacobean plays are from Alfred Harbage , Annals of English Drama 975-1700 , rev . S. Schoenbaum ( London : Methuen , 1964 ) . For proverbs , I refer to the numbering system in Morris Palmer Tilley , A Dictionary of the ...
... Elizabethan age. The Puritan attacks on the theater seem to be anchored in these provocative gender confusions. In the case of Rosalind, there is an added complication in the fact that in her male disguise, she takes the name of ...
... Elizabethan writers of son- nets , but Shakespeare is also a notable satirist of these conventions . We are often presented with a contradictory situation in which a character like Romeo is suffering from an almost farcical love ...
... and her eyes : What , do I love her , That I desire to hear her speak again , And feast upon her eyes ? What is't I dream on ? ( 2.2.176-78 ) There is an Elizabethan expression , " to look babies FALLING IN LOVE : CONVENTIONS 15.
Maurice Charney. There is an Elizabethan expression , " to look babies " ( under the verb “ look ” in sense 6a in the OED ) , which refers to an intense gaze of lovers in which they see their reflections in each other's eyes . This seems ...
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2 Love Doctrine in the Comedies | 27 |
3 Love Doctrine in the Problem Plays and Hamlet | 63 |
4 Love Doctrine in the Tragedies | 79 |
5 Enemies of Love | 107 |
6 Gender Definitions | 133 |
7 Homoerotic Discourses | 159 |
Sexual Wit | 181 |
Afterword | 209 |
Notes | 213 |
Index | 227 |