Shakespeare on Love and Lust
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (708 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0231104294 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
He is the author or editor of twenty books, including How to Read Shakespeare, Style in Hamlet, Shakespeare's Roman Plays, Sexual Fiction, and All of Shakespeare (Columbia) and is a recipient of the Medal of the City of Tours.. Maurice Charney is Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University and the past president of the Shakespeare Association of America
Against the conventions of Renaissance literature, Shakespeare qualified the Platonic view that true love transcends the physical. Later chapters cover the gender complications in such plays as Macbeth and The Taming of the Shrew as well as the homoerotic themes woven into many of the poems and plays. Instead, as Charney demonstrates, love in Shakespeare's work is almost always sexual as well as spiritual, and the full range of desire's dramatic possibilities is displayed.Shakespeare on Love and Lust begins by considering the ways in which Shakespeare drew upon and satirized the conventions of Petrarchan Renaissance love poetry in plays like Romeo and Juliet, then explores how courtship is woven into the basic plot formula of the comedies. 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 Eliz
Not for everybody! Sylviastel Unless you are totally and absolutely into William Shakespeare, this book will probably not be for you. Dr. Maurice Charney was a professor of English at my alma mater, Rutgers, but he was never my teacher nor have I ever met him. Dr. Charney does his best to emphasize the relationships in Shakespeare's plays. While I prefer Harold Bloom usually, Maurice Charny is a great alternative if you're not into Bloom. The book has a great cover and there is stuff worth reading but I wasn't dazzled by it. It just made me think more about Shak
(Choice)Places the era's genre conventions and language on the bare stage, spelling out the bawdy puns and the sexual euphemisms. Alive with informed readings and provoking asides. Young love, married love, same-sex bonds, humorous or ribald, lusty or wistful a delightful treatment of a subject that was played out on Shakespeare's stage in all its infinite variety. Provides beginners with an informative and readable introduction to Shakespeare's handling of the themes of love and lust, and advanced scholars with thoughtful new material. (ForeWord)A fascinating overview of every aspect of love expressed in Shakespeare's works. (The A List)