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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... Shakespeare ( 1981 ) . Among the most complex and wide - ranging of feminist discussions is Carol Thomas Neely's Broken Nuptials in Shakespeare's Plays ( 1993 ; first published in 1985 ) . The nuptials are broken by deep - seated male ...
... Shakespeare as a writer of plays intended to be per- formed , as well as my fascination with intertextual relations among his works from different periods . There is no overall doctrine of love that emerges from reading Shake- speare ...
... plays and Hamlet , which are addressed in the third chapter . Of course , plays like Measure for Mea- sure and All's Well That Ends Well use many of the devices of comedy . The bed trick , for example , is a fictional motif with a long ...
... played by Olivia : She made good view of me ; indeed , so much That sure methought her eyes had lost her tongue , For she did speak in starts distractedly . ( 2.2.19-21 ) In the typical fashion of Shakespeare's comedies , Viola washes ...
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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 |