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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... topic of love and lust in Shakespeare . My approach is strongly based on what Shakespeare says about love and lust in his plays and poems , and emphasizes his language and imagery as they express a variety of attitudes and INTRODUCTION 3.
... poems to Laura collected in the Canzoniere , first published in Venice in 1470. These conventions were highly developed after Petrarch by both Italian and English writers of love poetry , especially sonnets.1 Shakespeare is both a ...
... poem , " The Ex- stasie , " written around the same time as the plays quoted here . Donne lit- eralizes the meaning of " oeillades " or " eliads " : Our eye - beames twisted , and did thred Our eyes , upon one double string . . . .8 The ...
... poetic inspiration , which is what seems to be meant in the concluding couplet of Sonnet 23 : O , learn to read what silent love hath writ . To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit . So reading the author's “ books be then the ...
... poetic conceit is filled out by the fancy that the painter must have been so dazzled by the beauty of the first eye ... poem . Tarquin the rapist is subdued against his better judgment by the spotless beauty and chastity of Lucrece , as ...
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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 |