Male Friendship in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Informationen zum Autor Tom MacFaul is a lecturer at Merton College! University of Oxford. Klappentext A study of the topic of friendship in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Zusammenfassung Friendship is one of the most important topics in Shakespeare! but it can be difficult to describe! and has consequently been relatively neglected. Covering a wide range of Shakespeare's works! MacFaul shows how the wonderful particularity of Shakespeare's characters is formed by the use of Renaissance ideas about friendship. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. True friends?; 2. Momentary mutuality in Shakespeare's Sonnets; 3. Friends and brothers; 4. Love and friendship; 5. Servants; 6. Political friendship; 7. Fellowship; 8. False friendship and betrayal; Conclusion: 'Time must friend or end'; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Macfaul, Thomas (University of Oxford) Macfaul, Tom MacFaul, MacFaul Thomas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.11.2009
• EAN: 9780521123174
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12317-4
• No. of pages: 236
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean