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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... Hamlet 63 chapter four Love Doctrine in the Tragedies 79 chapter five Enemies of Love 107 chapter six Gender Definitions 133 chapter seven Homoerotic Discourses 159 chapter eight Love and Lust: Sexual Wit 181 afterword 209 notes 213 ...
... Hamlet'' to “The Tempest'' (1992). This is an imaginative, nondoctrinaire approach to male resist- ances to love. Male assumptions are also explored in Coppélia Kahn's Man's Estate: Masculine Identity in Shakespeare (1981). Among the ...
... Hamlet have many similarities in satirical tone and mood. In both plays romantic love is undercut and truncated in the face of a harsh and destructive reality. All of the problem plays and Hamlet are unsatisfying generically, from ...
... (Hamlet 4.7.185–86). The issue of gender as a prepared role is nowhere more strikingly developed than in The Taming of the Shrew. Both Petruchio and Kate give us their exaggerated renditions of what they think it means to be a man or a ...
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Inhalt
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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 |