Shakespeare and the Nature of Love: Literature, Culture, EvolutionNorthwestern University Press, 2007 - 245 páginas The best conception of love, Marcus Nordlund contends, and hence the best framework for its literary analysis, must be a fusion of evolutionary, cultural, and historical explanation. It is within just such a bio-cultural nexus that Nordlund explores Shakespeare’s treatment of different forms of love. His approach leads to a valuable new perspective on Shakespearean love and, more broadly, on the interaction between our common humanity and our historical contingency as they are reflected, recast, transformed, or even suppressed in literary works. After addressing critical issues about love, biology, and culture raised by his method, Nordlund considers four specific forms of love in seven of Shakespeare’s plays. Examining the vicissitudes of parental love in Titus Andronicus and Coriolanus, he argues that Shakespeare makes a sustained inquiry into the impact of culture and society upon the natural human affections. King Lear offers insight into the conflicted relationship between love and duty. In two problem plays about romantic love, Troilus and Cressida and All’s Well that Ends Well, the tension between individual idiosyncrasies and social consensus becomes especially salient. And finally, in Othello and The Winter’s Tale, Nordlund asks what Shakespeare can tell us about the dark avatar of jealousy. |
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... characters are fictional ap- proximations of real human beings and that " very little is gained by reminding us that Hamlet is made up of and by words , that he is ' just ' a grouping of marks upon a page . . " 35 In other words , I ...
... characters are fictional ap- proximations of real human beings and that " very little is gained by reminding us that Hamlet is made up of and by words , that he is ' just ' a grouping of marks upon a page . . " 35 In other words , I ...
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... characters in All's Well are convinced that Bertram has seriously under- rated the beautiful , intelligent , and virtuous Helena , and this opens up a thought- provoking tension between social consensus and individual point of view . As ...
... characters in All's Well are convinced that Bertram has seriously under- rated the beautiful , intelligent , and virtuous Helena , and this opens up a thought- provoking tension between social consensus and individual point of view . As ...
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... characters in the first acts of the play , it is all the more remarkable that the sym- pathy they attract from other characters should be so very lopsided . One of Shakespeare's most striking modifications to his source in Painter is ...
... characters in the first acts of the play , it is all the more remarkable that the sym- pathy they attract from other characters should be so very lopsided . One of Shakespeare's most striking modifications to his source in Painter is ...
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Chapter | 6 |
The Nature of Love | 17 |
Chapter 2 | 52 |
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