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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... Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Rosalind and Celia in As You Like It . Both of these pairs have no trouble at all in mus- tering up heterosexual attitudes when they are needed . Chapter 8 sums up Shakespeare's riddling use of ...
... Helena : “ And run through fire I will for thy sweet sake . / Transparent Helena ! ” ( 103–4 ) . His former love for Hermia is now completely displaced : " Not Hermia but Helena I love : / Who will not change a raven for a dove ...
... Helena , but his love is so excessive that it is unconvincing to Helena , who continues to dote on Demetrius . As Lysander says in the first scene of the play : she , sweet lady , dotes , Devoutly dotes , dotes in idolatry , Upon this ...
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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 |