Shakespeare And The Nature Of Love

Author : Marcus Nordlund
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780810124233

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Shakespeare and the Nature of Love by Marcus Nordlund Pdf

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.

Author : Roger Peters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0473395045

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Shakespeare & Mature Love by Roger Peters Pdf

Author : Thomas Brackshaw
Publisher : Villaggio Publications
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736752200

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The Ever-Fixed Mark by Thomas Brackshaw Pdf

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.

Author : William Shakespeare,John Keats,Edith Wharton
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780785246244

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Timeless Love by William Shakespeare,John Keats,Edith Wharton Pdf

This beautiful, giftable collection celebrates the beauty and the agony of love through classic poems, stories, and letters from beloved writers. Because it defines human existence, love is one of art’s favorite subjects. Timeless Love: Poems, Stories, and Letters celebrates the mysterious nature of love and passion by bringing together classic works by beloved writers through the ages. Including stories, poems, and letters from Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barret Browning, John Keats, Edith Wharton, and more, this collection explores how each love is singular—yet love itself is universal. Hand-selected and presented in a lovely, gift-worthy package, Timeless Love will make a romantic, thoughtful gift for the reader in your life or the perfect addition to a collector’s shelf.

Author : Allan Bloom
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226060454

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Shakespeare on Love and Friendship by Allan Bloom Pdf

In particular, we see the full variety of erotic connections, from the "star-crossed" devotions of Romeo and Juliet to the failed romance of Troilus and Cressida to the problematic friendship of Falstaff and Hal.".

Author : Richard Allen Shoaf
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443869539

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Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things by Richard Allen Shoaf Pdf

Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things maps large, new vistas for understanding the relationship between De rerum natura and Shakespeare’s works. In chapters on six important plays across the canon (King Lear, Macbeth, Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream), it demonstrates that Shakespeare articulates his erotics of being, his “great creating nature” (The Winter’s Tale), by drawing on imagery he learned from Ovid and other classical poets, but especially from Lucretius, in his powerful epic that celebrates Venus and her endless creativity. Responding to Lucretius’s widely admired Latinity in his exposition of the life of man in nature, Shakespeare emerges as an early modern materialist who writes poetry that is effectively “atomic,” marked (as we might say today) by fission (hendiadys, for example) and fusion (synoeciosis, for example), joining and splitting, splitting and joining language and character as no other poet has ever done – To give away yourself keeps yourself still; My grave is like to be my wedding bed; I begin/To doubt the equivocation of the fiend/That lies like truth. Readers of Shoaf’s book will encounter anew, through both fresh evidence and close reading, Shakespeare’s universally acknowledged commitment to the art of nature and the nature of art. With Lucretius’s poetry as inspiration, Shakespeare becomes the poet of the material, both in art and in nature, immensely creative with his dædala lingua like dædala natura – his wonder-crafting tongue like wonder-working nature.

Author : Susan Zimmerman,Garrett A. Sullivan
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838642535

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Shakespeare Studies by Susan Zimmerman,Garrett A. Sullivan Pdf

Shakespeare Studies is an international volume published every year in hard cover that contains essays and studies by scholars and cultural historians from both hemispheres. Although the journal maintains a focus on the theatrical milieu of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, it is also concerned with Britain's intellectual and cultural connections to the continent, its sociopolitical history, and its place in the emerging globalism of the period. The journal also includes substantial reviews of significant publications dealing with these issues, as well as theoretical studies relevant to scholars of early modern culture. This issue features another Forum, entitled "The Universities and the Theater." Organized and introduced by John H. Astington, the Forum includes commentary considering the relationship between theater in the universities and the Renaissance public stage. Volume XXXVII also features articles on the Fortune contract, and Titus Andronicus and the New World, as well as a review article on women and the early modern stage. There are nineteen reviews in this volume on such varying topics as angels in the early modern world, Shakespeare and the nature of love, and Shakespeare in French theory. Susan Zimmerman is Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York. Garrett Sullivan is Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University.

Author : Irving Singer
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262512732

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The Nature of Love, Volume 2 by Irving Singer Pdf

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.

Author : David Schalkwyk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107187238

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Shakespeare, Love and Language by David Schalkwyk Pdf

Comprehensive study of the concept of love in Shakespeare's work, exploring historical contexts, theory and philosophy of love.

Author : Clarissa Benning
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783668242180

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The Concept of Love in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Clarissa Benning Pdf

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.

Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191614699

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Shakespeare, Sex, and Love by Stanley Wells Pdf

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.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : NYPL:33433003252636

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A Midsummer-night's Dream by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Bernard J. Dobski,Dustin A. Gish
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739165430

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Souls with Longing by Bernard J. Dobski,Dustin A. Gish Pdf

The works of William Shakespeare vividly represent for our admiration and study a pageant of souls with longing in whose wake we ceaselessly follow. Through some of his most memorable characters, Shakespeare illuminates the nature and character—as well as consequences—of our distinctively human passions and ambition, in particular our desire for and pursuit of both honor and love. The contributors to this collaborative volume (scholars in English Literature, Political Philosophy, and the Humanities) argue that Shakespeare has much to teach us about our longing for honor and love in particular, and thus about who we are, what we desire, and why. Through sustained reflection on the Shakespearean portraits of honor and love, which are the focus of the chapters in Souls With Longing, we become more keenly aware of our own humanity and come to know ourselves more profoundly. As the abiding popularity of his works aptly demonstrates, Shakespeare’s unforgettable portraits of souls with longing—his representations of honor and love—continue to exert undeniable sway over our political, moral, and romantic imaginations.

Author : Maurice Charney
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231500067

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Shakespeare on Love and Lust by Maurice Charney Pdf

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 pairings (Antonio and Sebastian). Against the conventions of Renaissance literature, Shakespeare qualified the Platonic view that true love transcends the physical. 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. Next, Charney examines love in the tragedies and the enemies of love (Iago, for example). 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. Charney concludes with a lively discussion of paradoxes and ambivalences about love expressed by Shakespeare's word play and sexual innuendoes.

Author : Juliet Dusinberre
Publisher : London : Macmillan
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036209299

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Shakespeare and the Nature of Women by Juliet Dusinberre Pdf

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.