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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... words , his works seem to be full of con- tradictions about the nature of love and the expected behavior of lovers . He often seems to be making fun of the absurdities of love and the pin- ing lover as described so vividly in Lawrence ...
... word because it indicates love in the extreme , exces- sive fondness , which is produced immediately in the recipient . There is no progression or development . Oberon is taking revenge on his wife , Titania , for denying him the Indian ...
... word specifically associated with magic , and he anoints Lysander's eyes with the invocation : " When thou wak'st , let love forbid / Sleep his seat on thy eyelid ” ( 80–81 ) . Of course , the waking Lysander responds exactly as ...
... words : What passion hangs these weights upon my tongue ? I cannot speak to her , yet she urged conference . O poor Orlando , thou art overthrown ! Or Charles or something weaker masters thee . ( 247-50 ) Orlando's sudden “ passion ...
... word for amorous and flirtatious glances or ogles . The discourse is similarly poeticized in Mrs. Page's eyebeam gilding , or turning to gold , his foot and portly belly , as if her gaze operated as a kind of Midas touch . In King Lear ...
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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 |