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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... Lady Macbeth speaks of unsexing herself from her role as woman and mother at the same time as she insists that her husband be manly and kill the king . The gender issues of Macbeth are replayed in Coriolanus , where Volumnia shapes the ...
... lady , dotes , Devoutly dotes , dotes in idolatry , Upon this spotted and inconstant man . ( 1.1.109-11 ) There is no moderation in love because it is not a reasonable passion . You either love too much or not at all . The love at first ...
... lady's eyes ” ( 326 ) . Love “ adds a precious seeing to the eye ” ( 332 ) and “ A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind " ( 333 ) . All of this ocular ideology is summed up toward the end of the speech , when Berowne reverses the ...
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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 |