Shakespeare on Love and Lust

246 Pages·1999·0.87 MB·English

by  Maurice Charney

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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK
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Charney,Maurice.
Shakespeare on love and lust / Maurice Charney.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0–231–10428–6(cloth :alk.paper).– ISBN 0–231–10429–4
(paper :alk.paper)
1. Shakespeare,William,1564–1616–Criticism and interpretation. 2. Love in
literature. 3. Gender identity in literature. 4. Lust in literature.
5. Sex in literature. I.Title.
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CONTENTS
acknowledgments ix
introduction 1
chapter one Falling in Love:Conventions 9
chapter two Love Doctrine in the Comedies 27
chapter three Love Doctrine in the Problem Plays and Hamlet 63
chapter four Love Doctrine in the Tragedies 79
chapter five Enemies of Love 107
chapter six Gender Definitions 133
chapter seven Homoerotic Discourses 159
chapter eight Love and Lust:Sexual Wit 181
afterword 209
notes 213
index 227
contents vii

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Shakespeare is quoted throughout from the individual paperback vol-
umes of The Complete Signet Classic Shakespeare,ed.Sylvan Barnet (New
York:Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,1972),except where otherwise noted.
Sylvan Barnet is the general editor and the individual plays have different
editors.Note that the line numbering of the individual volumes may be
slightly different from the complete volume. The dates of Elizabethan
and Jacobean plays are from Alfred Harbage, Annals of English Drama
975–1700,rev.S.Schoenbaum (London:Methuen,1964).For proverbs,I
refer to the numbering system in Morris Palmer Tilley,A Dictionary of the
Proverbs in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press,1966).I have used throughout The Harvard
Concordance to Shakespeare, by Marvin Spevack (Cambridge: Harvard
University Press,1973).I refer frequently to the Oxford English Dictionary
(OED).
acknowledgments