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Shakespeare on Love and Lust Author: Maurice Charney

ISBN: 9780231104296 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 248 Published: 16 April 2001 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 22.23 x 14.61 x 1.91 Description:

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.

While focusing primarily on desire between young lovers, Charney also explores themes of love in marriage (Brutus and Portia) and in same-sex ...

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