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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... speaks of unsexing herself from her role as woman and mother at the same time as she insists that her husband be manly and kill the king . The gender issues of Macbeth are replayed in Coriolanus , where Volumnia shapes the military ...
... speaks of the love juice as a “ charm , ” a word specifically associated with magic , and he anoints Lysander's eyes with the invocation : " When thou wak'st , let love forbid / Sleep his seat on thy eyelid ” ( 80–81 ) . Of course , the ...
... speak to her , yet she urged conference . O poor Orlando , thou art overthrown ! Or Charles or something weaker masters thee . ( 247-50 ) Orlando's sudden “ passion , " or strong feeling , makes him tongue - tied , but he later proves ...
... speak in starts distractedly . ( 2.2.19-21 ) In the typical fashion of Shakespeare's comedies , Viola washes her hands of the difficulty : “ O Time , thou must untangle this , not I ; / It is too hard a knot for me t ' untie " ( 40-41 ) ...
... eyes : What , do I love her , That I desire to hear her speak again , And feast upon her eyes ? What is't I dream on ? ( 2.2.176-78 ) There is an Elizabethan expression , " to look babies FALLING IN LOVE : CONVENTIONS 15.
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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 |