Shakespeare And The Nature Of Love
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Shakespeare And The Nature Of Love
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Author : Marcus Nordlund
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2007-08-27
Shakespeare And The Nature Of Love written by Marcus Nordlund and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-27 with Drama categories.
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.
Shakespeare Mature Love
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Author : Roger Peters
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Shakespeare Mature Love written by Roger Peters and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
The Ever Fixed Mark
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Author : Thomas Brackshaw
language : en
Publisher: Villaggio Publications
Release Date : 2021-04-30
The Ever Fixed Mark written by Thomas Brackshaw and has been published by Villaggio Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-30 with categories.
Are you curious about why Shakespeare's plays have captured hearts and minds for the past 425 years but are too intimidated by his reputation or the difficulty of his language to explore the plays on your own? If so, this is the book for you because, while it takes an in-depth look at ten major plays, it seeks to make each one understandable and, through that, to clarify why their author still remains beloved by so many. Beginning with the early Romeo and Juliet and ending with the late The Tempest, it shows how Shakespeare gradually develops a vision of human relationships that is highly moral and, at the same time, deeply humane. Love is a unifying theme of these works, and women often serve to illuminate its crucial importance for the development of a fully human existence. Genuine love, the plays suggest, requires a disciplined selflessness that relinquishes personal desire but which is then providentially rewarded with nature's abundance. Such love begets more love. This is a choice that not everyone is willing to make, but the decision is one, the plays argue, that has profound consequences for the individual, for families, and for society itself. Based on the texts of each play and supported by relevant historical and critical commentary from other respected critics, this is the kind of analysis that will enrich your understanding and appreciation of this supremely gifted author. If you want to peer into the remarkable soul of Shakespeare's art, this is a book that gets to the very heart of these 10 major plays and the author who wrote them.
The Nature Of Love Volume 2
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Author : Irving Singer
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2009-02-20
The Nature Of Love Volume 2 written by Irving Singer and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-20 with Philosophy categories.
An examination of ideas and ideals of medieval courtly love and the transition into later Romantic love, analyzing the work of Dante, Shakespeare, and Schopenhauer, among many others. Review), "monumental" (Boston Globe), "one of the major works of philosophy in our century" (Nous), "wise and magisterial" (Times Literary Supplement), and a "masterpiece of critical thinking [that] is a timely, eloquent, and scrupulous account of what, after all, still makes the world go round" (Christian Science Monitor). In the second volume, Singer studies the ideas and ideals of medieval courtly love and nineteenth-century Romantic love, as well as the transition between these two perspectives. According to the traditions of courtly love in the twelfth century and thereafter, not only God but also human beings in themselves are capable of authentic love. The pursuit of love between man and woman was seen as a splendid ideal that ennobles both the lover and the beloved. It was something more than libidinal sexuality and involved sophisticated and highly refined courtliness that emulated religious love in its ability to create a holy union between the participants. Adherents to Romantic love in later centuries, affirmed the capacity of love to effect a merging between two people who thus became one. Singer analyzes the transition from courtly to Romantic by reference to the writings of many artists beginning with Dante and ending with Richard Wagner, as well as Neoplatonist philosophers of the Italian Renaissance, Descartes, Spinoza, Rousseau, Hume, Kant, Hegel, and Schopenhauer. In relation to romanticism itself, he distinguishes between two aspects—"benign romanticism" and "Romantic pessimism"—that took on renewed importance in the twentieth century.
Shakespeare Love And Language
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Author : David Schalkwyk
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-25
Shakespeare Love And Language written by David Schalkwyk and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-25 with Drama categories.
Comprehensive study of the concept of love in Shakespeare's work, exploring historical contexts, theory and philosophy of love.
Shakespeare And The Nature Of Women
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Author : Juliet Dusinberre
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 1996
Shakespeare And The Nature Of Women written by Juliet Dusinberre and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is a new, third edition of this pioneering work in feminist and literary criticism.When first published in 1975, Shakespeare and the Nature of Women inaugurated a new wave of Shakespeare scholarship, offering a sustained critique of inherited male thinking about women, theological, literary, and social issues in Shakespeare's plays.Almost thirty years later, it continues to be the cornerstone of writing about women in this period and the springboard for new research.This new edition includes a new preface, and updated bibliography, and developments in feminist thinking about Shakespeare.
Shakespeare And Experience Of Love
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Author : Arthur Kirsch
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1981-09-30
Shakespeare And Experience Of Love written by Arthur Kirsch and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981-09-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Professor Kirsch presents an original interpretations of Shakespeare's five plays using theological and psychoanalytical ideas.
Shakespeare And The Nature Of Women
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Author : Juliet Dusinberre
language : en
Publisher: London : Macmillan
Release Date : 1975
Shakespeare And The Nature Of Women written by Juliet Dusinberre and has been published by London : Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Literary Criticism categories.
SHAKESPEARE AND THE NATURE OF WOMEN was the first full-length feminist analysis of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Its arguments for the feminism both of the drama and the early modern period caused instant controversy. Dusinberre claims that Puritan teaching on sexuality and spiritual equality raises questions about women which feed into the drama, where the role of women in relation to authority structures is constantly renegotiated. SHAKESPEARE AND THE NATURE OF WOMEN claimed for women a right to speak about the literary text from their own place in history and culture. The author's Preface to the Second Edition traces contemporary developments in feminist scholarship, which still wrestles with the book's main thesis: Renaissance feminism, feminist Shakespeare.
Shakespeare Sex And Love
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Author : Stanley Wells
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2010-04-08
Shakespeare Sex And Love written by Stanley Wells and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
How does Shakespeare's treatment of human sexuality relate to the sexual conventions and language of his times? Pre-eminent Shakespearean critic Stanley Wells draws on historical and anecdotal sources to present an illuminating account of sexual behaviour in Shakespeare's time, particularly in Stratford-upon-Avon and London. He demonstrates what we know or can deduce of the sex lives of Shakespeare and members of his family. He also provides a fascinating account of depictions of sexuality in the poetry of the period and suggests that at the time Shakespeare was writing most of his non-dramatic verse a group of poets catered especially for readers with homoerotic tastes. The second part of Shakespeare, Sex, - and Love focuses on the variety of ways in which Shakespeare treats sexuality in his plays and at how he relates sexuality to love. Wells shows that Shakespeare's attitude to sex developed over the course of his writing career, and devotes whole chapters to 'The Fun of Sex' - to how he raises laughter out of the matter of sex in both the language and the plotting of some of his comedies; portrayals of sexual desire; to Romeo and Juliet as the play in which Shakespeare focuses most centrally on issues relating to sex, love, and the relationship between them; to sexual jealousy, traced through four major plays; 'Sexual Experience'; and 'Whores and Saints'. A final chapter, 'Just Good Friends' examines Shakespeare's rendering of same-gender relationships.
The Concept Of Love In Shakespeare S A Midsummer Night S Dream
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Author : Clarissa Benning
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2016-06-16
The Concept Of Love In Shakespeare S A Midsummer Night S Dream written by Clarissa Benning and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Bonn, language: English, abstract: William Shakespeare is one of the most important English authors, his plays are well known today although he lived in the 16th century. Especially his love dramas enjoy great popularity. This paper deals with his comedy „A Midsummer Night's Dream“. Nearly everybody knows the famous sentence Lysander says to Hermia: „The course of true love never did run smooth“ (MND I.i.134). Love is the main theme in this play and this sentence mirrors the love between the four Athenian lovers very well. The flower 'love-in-idleness' screws up the whole love constellation as well as Egeus, Hermia's father, who does not allow his daughter to marry the man she loves. Throughout the play love is presented with a huge range of metaphors and it acquires new shapes. It is notable that those metaphors who describe the love in the play are metaphors of nature. The moon, the image of inconstancy is often used to show the inconstancy of love between the four Athenian lovers caused by the magic flower. Furthermore, love is linked to the eyes, but it is misleading, however, to conclude that there is a simple association between love and beauty, just because the eyes are linked to love. Besides Shakespeare shows the power of love between the protagonists. Love is not only a feeling, it changes the perception.