The Love Story in Shakespearean ComedyUniversity Press of Kentucky, 03.07.1992 - 248 Seiten In this fascinating study, Anthony J. Lewis argues that it is the hero himself, rejecting a woman he apprehends as a threat, who is love's own worst enemy. Drawing upon classical and Renaissance drama, iconography, and a wide range of traditional and feminist criticism, Lewis demonstrates that in Shakespeare the actions and reactions of hero and heroine are contingent upon social setting -- father-son relations, patriarchal restrictions on women, and cultural assumptions about gender-appropriate behavior. This compelling analysis shows how Shakespeare deepened the familiar love stores he inherited from New Comedy and Greek romance. Beginning with a penetrating analysis of the hero's contradictory response to sexual attraction, Lewis's discussion traces the heroine's reaction to abandonment and slander, and the lover's subsequent parallel descents into versions of bastardy and death. In arguing that comedy's happy ending is the product of the gender role reversals brought on by their evolving relationship itself, Lewis shows in meticulous detail how sexual stereotypes influence attitudes and restrict behavior. This perceptive discussion of male response to family and of female response to rejection will appeal to Shakespeare scholars and students, as well as to the theater community. Lewis's persuasive argument, that Shakespeare's heroes and heroines are, from the first, three-dimensional figures far removed from the stock types of Plautus, Terence, and his continental sources, will prove a valuable contribution to the ongoing feminist reappraisal of Shakespeare. |
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... thou my calf ? " ( 127 ) and then insists upon their similarities in spite of some dif- ferences between them : Thou want'st a rough pash and the shoots that I have , To be full like me ; yet they say we are Almost as like as eggs ...
... Thou art too base To be [ acknowledg'd ] . Thou , a sceptre's heir , That thus affects a sheep - hook ! [ 417-20 ] The accusation of baseness suggests illegitimacy , and suggests as well that the real " divorce ” is between father and ...
... thou fall upon thy face ? Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit , Wilt thou not , Jule ? ' and by my holidam , The pretty wretch left crying and said ' Ay . ' [ I.iii . 40-44 ] The tragedy in Shakespearean comedy is that the ...
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The Spirit of My Father | 11 |
We Cannot Fight for Love | 31 |
We Are All Bastards | 73 |
Urheberrecht | |
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