Sexual Desire and Romantic Love in Shakespeare : : 'Rich in Will' / / Joan Lord Hall.
Analyses how far Shakespeare succeeds in reconciling two polarised areas in the early modern period: sexual desire, or will, and idealised approaches to romantic loveEmphasizes cultural and semantic differences between Shakespeare’s age and our own that further our understanding of his texts - in pa...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. ‘Will’ and the Dark Side of Sexual Desire
- 2. Male Lust, Power and Rape
- 3. Lustful Women and Male Fantasies of Female Desire
- 4. Romantic Love and Sexual Desire: The Fickleness of Fancy, Eyes and Love’s Mind
- 5. The Petrarchan Love Convention: Romance at Odds with Sexual Desire
- 6. Sex, Love and Paradigms of Marriage
- 7. Homoerotic Desire and Same-Sex Bonding: Challenges to Heterosexual Partnership?
- 8. ‘The Buildings of My Fancy’: Family Ties and Sexual Desire
- Works Cited
- Index