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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... explanation no longer applies here . What Shakespeare presents us with is a former individualist who now consciously decides to save his family at the expense of his own life , belying Montaigne's assumption that the reproductive ...
... explanation no longer applies here . What Shakespeare presents us with is a former individualist who now consciously decides to save his family at the expense of his own life , belying Montaigne's assumption that the reproductive ...
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... explanation . . . One gets the strange sense that lago's own thoughts , for all the energy with which he addresses himself to them , are composed mainly of uncertain , half - plausible rumours that circulate in his head and that he ...
... explanation . . . One gets the strange sense that lago's own thoughts , for all the energy with which he addresses himself to them , are composed mainly of uncertain , half - plausible rumours that circulate in his head and that he ...
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... explanations of Desdemona's supposed adultery : " Yet that's not much " ( 3.3.270 ) . Not only are we given no reason to prefer blackness above the other two explanations , but all three explanations are rejected by Othello himself . We ...
... explanations of Desdemona's supposed adultery : " Yet that's not much " ( 3.3.270 ) . Not only are we given no reason to prefer blackness above the other two explanations , but all three explanations are rejected by Othello himself . We ...
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Chapter | 6 |
The Nature of Love | 17 |
Chapter 2 | 52 |
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