Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Falling in Love: Conventions 2. Love Doctrine in the Comedies 3. Love Doctrine in the Problem Plays and Hamlet 4. Love Doctrine in the Tragedies 5. Enemies of Love 6. Gender Definitions 7. Homoerotic Discourses 8. Love and Lust: Sexual Wit Afterword Notes Index
Shakespeare's witty, bawdy-and ambiguous-treatment of love, sex, and desire, brilliantly untangled by a leading Shakespeare scholar.
Maurice Charney is Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University and the past president of the Shakespeare Association of America. 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.
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. 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. ForeWord A fascinating overview of every aspect of love expressed in Shakespeare's works. 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. The A List
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