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Informationen zum Autor Marcus Nordlund is an associate professor of English at Goteborg University in Sweden. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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Marcus Nordlund is an associate professor of English at Göteborg University in Sweden.
