Shakespeare and the Nature of Love - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shakespeare and the Nature of Love write by Marcus Nordlund. This book was released on 2007-08-27. Shakespeare and the Nature of Love available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Timeless Love
Timeless Love - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Timeless Love write by William Shakespeare. This book was released on 2020-12-29. Timeless Love available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Shakespeare on Love and Friendship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shakespeare on Love and Friendship write by Allan Bloom. This book was released on 2000-06-07. Shakespeare on Love and Friendship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.".
Shakespeare, Love and Language
Shakespeare, Love and Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shakespeare, Love and Language write by David Schalkwyk. This book was released on 2018-01-25. Shakespeare, Love and Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Comprehensive study of the concept of love in Shakespeare's work, exploring historical contexts, theory and philosophy of love.
Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things
Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things write by Richard Allen Shoaf. This book was released on 2014-10-16. Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
