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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... seven Homoerotic Discourses 159 chapter eight Love and Lust: Sexual Wit 181 afterword 209 notes 213 index 227 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS be Shakespeare is quoted throughout from the individual paperback contents vii Table of Contents.
... sexual couple whose love eventually leads to marriage. Shakespeare's conception of love doesn't fit Ficino's Platonic and neo-Platonic ideas, in which physical love is always transcended to something higher and introduction 1 Introduction.
... sexual under- pinnings. Hagstrum's book, published in 1992, is fairly traditional and old-fash- ioned in its point ... Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama (1992), Bruce R. Smith, Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural ...
... sexual ambiguities might stir up in an audience . Feminist critics of Shakespeare have focused on love as a site of con- flict with patriarchally oriented male critics . In the discussion of Antony and Cleopatra , for example , we have ...
... sexual impulses . This makes for what may seem to us like con- tradiction , but is actually a spirited defense of love as a spontaneous feel- ing outside of rigid , societal expectations . The point is made abundantly clear in The Two ...
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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 |