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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... eyes and it is spontaneous, irresistible, and absolute. Tilley lists as proverbial, with many references, “LOVE comes by looking (in at the eyes)'' (L501). These assumptions are mockingly explored in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Love in ...
... eye that shall appear When thou wak'st, it is thy dear. Wake when some vile thing is near. (2.2.27–34) The fairyworld in A Midsummer Night's Dream is not so gentle and pas- toral as it is usually represented when the play is produced ...
... eyes I might approve / This flower's force in stirring love'' (2.2.68–69). Puck speaks of the love juice as a “charm,'' a word specifically associated with magic, and he anoints Lysander's eyes with the invocation: “When thou wak'st ...
... eyes and has an overpowering force. The lovers respond as if in a dream, and the crossing of the fairy world and the human world has interesting consequences. Titania is made to dote on Bottom as an ass, but Bottom doesn't exactly dote ...
... eyes—and that it is always sexual. Celia and Oliver, in “the very wrath of love,'' can only be satisfied by immediate marriage and sexual consummation. The love at first sight doctrine is more complex in Twelfth Night. Since people may ...
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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 |