Shakespeare on Love and LustColumbia University Press, 2002-07-22 - 248 psl. 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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... of love and lust in Shakespeare . My approach is strongly based on what Shakespeare says about love and lust in his plays and poems , and emphasizes his language and imagery as they express a variety of attitudes and INTRODUCTION 3.
... says : " My heart is turned to stone ; I strike it , and it hurts my hand " ( 184–85 ) . Shakespeare insists on making Othello a commentator on the intensity and magnitude of his own tragedy . Chapter 5 is concerned with the enemies of ...
... says of his friend Palamon , with whom he is imprisoned : “ We are one another's wife , ever begetting / New births of love " ( 2.1.139-40 ) . This doesn't mean that Arcite is Shakespeare's favorite sodomite , nor is Emilia his favorite ...
Maurice Charney. sodomite , nor is Emilia his favorite lesbian when she says : “ the true love ' tween maid and maid may be / More than in sex dividual ” ( 1.3.81–82 ) . These are homoerotic comments , but they are not meant to be ...
... say , to swear , I love thee ” ( 141–42 ) . Even Bottom is surprised : " And yet , to say the truth , reason and love keep little company together nowadays ” ( 144–45 ) . Titania takes her sud- den infatuation even further in her desire ...
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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 |