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Exploring Shakespeare's treatment of different forms of love, this book offers an approach which gives a perspective on Shakespearean love and on the interaction between our common humanity and our historical contingency as they are reflected, recast, transformed, or even suppressed in literary works.

Table of Contents
Introduction; 1. THE NATURE OF LOVE; Can Love Be Defined?; The Three Boundaries of Love; Evolving Love; Putting Sex Back in Gender; Love and Culture; 2. PARENTAL LOVE IN TWO ROMAN TRAGEDIES; Parenting Old and New; Titus Andronicus; Coriolanus; 3. FILIAL LOVE IN KING LEAR; Filial Love; How to Divide a Kingdom; The Childish King; Love and Duty; Is There Any Cause in Nature...?; 4. ROMANTIC LOVE IN TWO PROBLEM PLAYS; Troilus and Cressida; All's Well That Ends Well; 5. JEALOUSY IN OTHELLO; The Nature of Jealousy; ""One not easily Jealous""?; Conclusion.

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    A Hardback by Marcus Nordlund, Gary Saul Morson

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      Publisher: Northwestern University Press
      Publication Date: 8/30/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780810124219, 978-0810124219
      ISBN10: 0810124211

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Exploring Shakespeare's treatment of different forms of love, this book offers an approach which gives a perspective on Shakespearean love and on the interaction between our common humanity and our historical contingency as they are reflected, recast, transformed, or even suppressed in literary works.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction; 1. THE NATURE OF LOVE; Can Love Be Defined?; The Three Boundaries of Love; Evolving Love; Putting Sex Back in Gender; Love and Culture; 2. PARENTAL LOVE IN TWO ROMAN TRAGEDIES; Parenting Old and New; Titus Andronicus; Coriolanus; 3. FILIAL LOVE IN KING LEAR; Filial Love; How to Divide a Kingdom; The Childish King; Love and Duty; Is There Any Cause in Nature...?; 4. ROMANTIC LOVE IN TWO PROBLEM PLAYS; Troilus and Cressida; All's Well That Ends Well; 5. JEALOUSY IN OTHELLO; The Nature of Jealousy; ""One not easily Jealous""?; Conclusion.

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