Shakespeare on Love and LustColumbia University Press, 2002 M07 22 - 248 páginas 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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... making Othello a commentator on the intensity and magnitude of his own tragedy. Chapter 5 is concerned with the enemies of love. It is axiomatic that all of Shakespeare's villains fit into this category. Richard, Duke introduction 5.
Maurice Charney. all of Shakespeare's villains fit into this category. Richard, Duke of Gloucester's opening soliloquy in Richard III is almost a parody of a love discourse. His preoccupation with his own physical deformity is erotic in ...
... representation of love in the play. Love is an irrational force, usually shown in the extreme, and we can see why the Duke at the end puts “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet'' together as “of 10 falling in love: conventions.
... Duke Orsino's love embassy: he loves “With adorations, with fertile tears, / With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire'' (1.5. 255–56). These are the tired, conventional aspects of the Petrarchan lover, of no interest to Olivia ...
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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 |