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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... separation of a man from his father. CHAPTER 1 compares the kinds of separations effected in classical comedy with those in Shakespeare—primarily the death of the father—and discusses the consequences of that separation on the newly ...
... separation of lovers. I argue that, from the first, in The Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare's heroes reveal those ... separated from father and family, shrinking from woman and marriage, begins a descent that affects him socially and ...
... separation from father, their self-righteous misogyny, and their disenfranchisement, the men seem Elizabethan versions of Euripides or Seneca's Hippolytus, the bastard hero who flees from sexuality and opts for misogyny as the only way ...
... separated lovers communicate with one another, sometimes physically, at other times in more spiritual ways. The rueful Posthumus, for example, falls asleep in prison declaring, “O Imogen, / I'll speak to thee in silence” (V.iv.28–29) ...
... separation of a young man from his father. Though this division between parent and child is ordinarily cordial and no sign of a change in either the son's or the father's loyalties, it has a profound effect on the young man's social ...
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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 |