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Shakespeare and the Nature of Love

Author : Marcus Nordlund
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810124238
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Nature of Love written by Marcus Nordlund and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-27 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Roger Peters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780473395049
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare & Mature Love written by Roger Peters and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Timeless Love

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 078524624X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Timeless Love written by William Shakespeare and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Shakespeare on Love and Friendship

Author : Allan Bloom
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226060453
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare on Love and Friendship written by Allan Bloom and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-06-07 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.".

The Soul of Statesmanship

Author : Khalil M. Habib
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498543278
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Soul of Statesmanship written by Khalil M. Habib and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare’s plays explore a staggering range of political topics, from the nature of tyranny, to the practical effects of Christianity on politics and the family, to the meaning and practice of statesmanship. From great statesmen like Burke and Lincoln to the American frontiersman sitting by his rustic fire, those wrestling with the problems of the human soul and its confrontation with a puzzling world of political peril and promise have long considered these plays a source of political wisdom. The chapters in this volume support and illuminate this connection between Shakespearean drama and politics by examining a matter of central concern in both domains: the human soul. By depicting a bewildering variety of characters as they seek happiness and self-knowledge in the context of differing political regimes, family ties, religious duties, friendships, feuds, and poetic inspirations, Shakespeare illuminates the complex interdynamics between self-rule and political governance, educating readers by compelling us to share in the struggles of and relate to the tensions felt by each character in a way that no political treatise or lecture can. The authors of this volume, drawing upon expertise in fields such as political philosophy, American government, and law, explore the Bard’s dramatization of perennial questions about human nature, moral virtue, and statesmanship, demonstrating that reading his plays as works of philosophical literature enhances our understanding of political life and provides a source of advice and inspiration for the citizens and statesmen of today and tomorrow.

The Ever-Fixed Mark

Author : Thomas Brackshaw
Publisher : Villaggio Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781736752203
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book The Ever-Fixed Mark written by Thomas Brackshaw and published by Villaggio Publications. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Shakespeare, Love and Language

Author : David Schalkwyk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107187230
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare, Love and Language written by David Schalkwyk and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive study of the concept of love in Shakespeare's work, exploring historical contexts, theory and philosophy of love.

Shakespeare's Twenty-first Century Economics

Author : Frederick Turner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195128613
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Twenty-first Century Economics written by Frederick Turner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making constant recourse to well-known material from Shakespeare's plays, this text demonstrates that terms of money and value permeate our minds and lives even in our most mundane moments.

Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things

Author : Richard Allen Shoaf
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443869538
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things written by Richard Allen Shoaf and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Nature of Love, Volume 2

Author : Irving Singer
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262512734
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Love, Volume 2 written by Irving Singer and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-02-20 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Studies

Author : Susan Zimmerman
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0838642535
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Studies written by Susan Zimmerman and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Souls with Longing

Author : Bernard J. Dobski
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739165437
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Souls with Longing written by Bernard J. Dobski and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-11-21 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Holding a Mirror up to Nature

Author : James Gilligan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108987915
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Holding a Mirror up to Nature written by James Gilligan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare has been dubbed the greatest psychologist of all time. This book seeks to prove that statement by comparing the playwright's fictional characters with real-life examples of violent individuals, from criminals to political actors. For Gilligan and Richards, the propensity to kill others, even (or especially) when it results in the killer's own death, is the most serious threat to the continued survival of humanity. In this volume, the authors show how humiliated men, with their desire for retribution and revenge, apocryphal violence and political religions, justify and commit violence, and how love and restorative justice can prevent violence. Although our destructive power is far greater than anything that existed in his day, Shakespeare has much to teach us about the psychological and cultural roots of all violence. In this book the authors tell what Shakespeare shows, through the stories of his characters: what causes violence and what prevents it.

Shakespeare and Social Theory

Author : BRADD. SHORE
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781032017174
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Social Theory written by BRADD. SHORE and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a bridge between Shakespeare Studies and classical social theory, opening up readings of Shakespeare to a new audience outside of literary studies and the humanities. Shakespeare has long been known as a 'great thinker' and this book reads his plays through the lens of an anthropologist, revealing new connections between Shakespeare's plays and the lives we now lead. Close readings of a selection of frequently studied plays - Hamlet, The Winter's Tale, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar and King Lear - engage with the plays in detail while connecting them with some of the biggest questions we all ask ourselves, about love, friendship, ritual, language, human interactions and the world around us. The plays are examined through various social theories including performance theory, cognitive theory, semiotics, exchange theory and structuralism. The book concludes with a consideration of how "the new astronomy" of his day and developments in optics changed the very idea of "perspective," and shaped Shakespeare's approach to embedding social theory in his dramatic texts. This accessible and engaging book will appeal to those approaching Shakespeare from outside literary studies, but will also be valuable to literature students approaching Shakespeare for the first time, or looking for a new angle on the plays.

Shakespeare, Sex, and Love

Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191614696
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare, Sex, and Love written by Stanley Wells and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-04-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Shakespeare and the Nature of Women

Author : Juliet Dusinberre
Publisher : London : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Nature of Women written by Juliet Dusinberre and published by London : Macmillan. This book was released on 1975 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Illustrated Book of Shakespeare's Verse

Author : L.K. Bulbeck
Publisher : Flame Tree Illustrated
ISBN 13 : 9781783612963
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Illustrated Book of Shakespeare's Verse written by L.K. Bulbeck and published by Flame Tree Illustrated. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare is regarded as the greatest English-language playwright of all time. He was a natural poet, writing some long narrative poems, many sonnets and much of his plays in rhyming or blank verse. His sonnets have been praised as a profound meditation on the nature of love, sexual passion, procreation, death, and time. This beautifully bound and illustrated book contains a carefully chosen selection of the bard's verse, from Sonnet 18's 'Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?' and Sonnet 116's 'Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds', to Hamlet's speech 'To be, or not to be'. It would make a very special gift to any fan of Shakespeare.