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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... sense . I pursue my own interest in 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 ...
... sense poisons his own life , as in his unforgettable comment on Cassio : “ He hath a daily beauty in his life / That makes me ugly ” ( Othello 5.1.19–20 ) . In the com- edies there are many reluctant male lovers , such as Bertram in ...
... sense of the workings of love and lust : All this the world well knows , yet none knows well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell . CHAPTER ONE FALLING IN Love : CONVENTIONS Shakespeare follows the INTRODUCTION 7 ་
... sense 6a in the OED ) , which refers to an intense gaze of lovers in which they see their reflections in each other's eyes . This seems to be what Angelo is referring to in " feast upon her eyes . " He is caught in his own excessive ...
... sense of breath and body warmth coming from the statue of Hermione . He mentions eyes only in a single , familiar image : “ The fixure of her eyes has motion in't , / As we are mocked with art " ( 67-68 ) . This is Shakespeare's most ...
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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 |