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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... speech , in couplets , indicates that she has given herself up to what fate has in store for her . She is no longer capable of resisting love : I do I know not what , and fear to find Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind . Fate ...
... a woman , therefore to be won . ( 78-79 ) This is practically quoted verbatim from Demetrius's speech in Titus Andronicus just before he rapes Lavinia : She is a woman , She is a woman , 14 FALLING IN LOVE : CONVENTIONS.
... speech , “ oeillades ” is a new - minted word for amorous and flirtatious glances or ogles . The discourse is similarly poeticized in Mrs. Page's eyebeam gilding , or turning to gold , his foot and portly belly , as if her gaze operated ...
... speech on the amorous powers of eyes is Berowne's long discourse in Love's Labor's Lost ' after all four of the sworn members of the Academy of Navarre have unwittingly revealed that they are in love . In Berowne's 75 - line oration ...
... speech , “ Tell me where is fancy bred " ( 63 ) , “ bred ” and “ head ” hint to Bassanio — they also rhyme with “ lead . ” This song about the generation of “ fancy , ” or love , clearly states that It is engend❜red in the eyes , With ...
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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 |