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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... lovers . He often seems to be making fun of the absurdities of love and the pin- ing lover as described so vividly in Lawrence Babb's book , The Eliza- bethan Malady : A Study of Melancholia in English Literature from 1580 to 1642 ...
... lovers from different social spheres are set against each other , as in Plautus and Terence . The love theme suits comedy very well since it energizes the movement to the happy ending on all social strata , which features feasting ...
... lover , ” he is “ determinèd to prove a villain " ( 1.1.28-30 ) . Iago is Shakespeare's supreme enemy of love . He ... lovers , such as Bertram in All's Well and Malvolio in Twelfth Night , whom self - love blocks from love for another ...
... . This colors the 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 IO FALLING IN LOVE : CONVENTIONS.
Maurice Charney. “ The lunatic , the lover , and the poet " together as “ of imagination all compact " ( 5.1.7–8 ) . When Titania awakens from her sleep she immediately falls in love with Bottom , the Weaver , who wears an ass's head and ...
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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 |