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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... whose love eventually leads to marriage. Shakespeare's conception of love doesn't fit Ficino's Platonic and neo-Platonic ideas, in which physical love is always transcended to something higher and introduction 1 Introduction.
... marriage and the promise of children. The assumptions are different in the problem plays and Hamlet, which are addressed in the third chapter. Of course, plays like Measure for Measure and All's Well That Ends Well use many of the ...
... marriage, which they will climb incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage: they are in the very wrath of love, and they will together; clubs cannot part them. (5.2.29–40) Notice how love begins by looking—through the eyes—and ...
... married, he plots to offer Margaret as Queen to King Henry VI but to keep her as his paramour. In his asides, Suffolk confesses to his immediate and total infatuation: As plays the sun upon the glassy streams, Twinkling another ...
... culminates in The Merchant of Venice. Portia is eager to give Bassanio broad hints for his choice of the right casket without violating her father's lottery for her marriage choice: “If 16 falling in love: conventions.
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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 |