Shakespeare, Love and Service

Klappentext An examination of the interaction of love and service in Shakespeare's poems and plays. Zusammenfassung Covering Shakespeare's sonnets and a wide range of his plays from The Comedy of Errors to The Winter's Tale! in this book David Schalkwyk examines the ways in which the personal! affective relations of love are informed by the social! structural interactions of service. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. 'Thou serv'st me, and I'll love thee': service and love in Shakespeare's world; 2. Performance and imagination: The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer Night's Dream; 3. The bounds of service and the bonds of love: The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It and The Tempest; 4. 'More than a steward': the sonnets, Twelfth Night, and Timon of Athens; 5. The services of friendship: Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, the sonnets, and Antony and Cleopatra; 6. 'I am your own for ever': King Lear and Othello; 7. 'Something more than man': The Winter's Tale.

Product details

• Authors: David Schalkwyk, David (University of Cape Town) Schalkwyk, Schalkwyk David
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.11.2012
• EAN: 9781107411654
• ISBN: 978-1-107-41165-4
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, Literature & literary studies, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean