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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... Shakespeare. This concluding chapter seemed to me the weakest in a splendid book, and in trying to explore its inadequacies I decided to write my own book about love in Shakespeare. Hagstrum is interested in all varieties of love, from ...
... Shakespeare expresses itself in physical desire, and even at its most rapturous (as in Romeo and Juliet), never loses its sexual underpinnings. Hagstrum's book, published in 1992, is fairly traditional and old-fashioned in its point of ...
... Shakespeare was a practicing homosexual, but by calling attention to the large amount of homoerotic material, they raise serious questions about the nature of love in his works. As a dramatist, he would naturally have been interested in ...
... Shakespeare as a writer of plays intended to be performed, as well as my fascination with intertextual relations among his works from different periods. There is no overall doctrine of love that emerges from reading Shakespeare. He ...
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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 |