The Love Story in Shakespearean ComedyUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2014/10/17 - 248 ページ In this fascinating study, Anthony J. Lewis argues that it is the hero himself, rejecting a woman he apprehends as a threat, who is love's own worst enemy. Drawing upon classical and Renaissance drama, iconography, and a wide range of traditional and feminist criticism, Lewis demonstrates that in Shakespeare the actions and reactions of hero and heroine are contingent upon social setting—father-son relations, patriarchal restrictions on women, and cultural assumptions about gender-appropriate behavior. This compelling analysis shows how Shakespeare deepened the familiar love stores he inherited from New Comedy and Greek romance. Beginning with a penetrating analysis of the hero's contradictory response to sexual attraction, Lewis's discussion traces the heroine's reaction to abandonment and slander, and the lover's subsequent parallel descents into versions of bastardy and death. In arguing that comedy's happy ending is the product of the gender role reversals brought on by their evolving relationship itself, Lewis shows in meticulous detail how sexual stereotypes influence attitudes and restrict behavior. This perceptive discussion of male response to family and of female response to rejection will appeal to Shakespeare scholars and students, as well as to the theater community. Lewis's persuasive argument, that Shakespeare's heroes and heroines are, from the first, three-dimensional figures far removed from the stock types of Plautus, Terence, and his continental sources, will prove a valuable contribution to the ongoing feminist reappraisal of Shakespeare. |
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... marriage or the sexual bonding of a man and a woman. The characteristic feature of stories in this tradition, simply put, is that “The course of true love never did run smooth” (MND, I.i.134). They detail, often in exciting and ...
... marry for a sexual attraction to an unavailable woman, and a woman who is restrained by disguises or convent walls eventually wins that man by virtue of her own willingness to take extraordinary actions, to ... marriage that Introduction 3.
... marriage, and those who seem burdened by a sense of themselves as the vector through whom family name and honor are to be transferred to posterity from a long line of mythicized ancestors. Often ambivalent about himself as an ...
... marry their lovers. In love with a man, the heroine is a wonder of courage and action. And it is here, as the lovers ... marriage, begins a descent that affects him socially and psychologically. Some heroes adopt disguises and pseudonyms ...
... marriages and relationships from the regressive pull of men whose second thoughts, outright misogyny, or unconscious ... marriage. Its effect is to clear the hero's eyes, so to speak, to help him see women more accurately, and to teach ...
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2 We Cannot Fight for Love | 31 |
3 Any Bar Any Cross Any Impediment | 48 |
4 We Are All Bastards | 73 |
5 Patience on a Monument | 104 |