Shakespeare's Sexual Comedy

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SHAKESPEARE'S SEXUAL COMEDY A JAirror for Ĺovers
"Almost the twin of my infant daughter, this book was conceived in a Paris fiat on the Left Bank, which was soon to reverberate with the echoes of police batons hammering on študent skulls and the crash of flying cobblestones. In due course it was born into a Berkeley clouded with tear gas, baptized on Telegraph Avenue in coffee shops flanked by the bayonets of the National Guard, and confirmed in university rooms sprinkled with broken glass or stained by arson attempts. Under the circumstances it is unlikely to prove just another academic book about Shakespeare."
So begins the "Early Warning" to Hugh Richmonďs study of sexual relationships in Shakespeare. To a generation jaded by the sterilities of textural criticism, he reasserts that Shakespeare has much to teach us about love; to a society wrenched by facile and violent idealism, he holds up the sane laughter of Beatrice and Benedick, the knowing flexibility of Rosalind, the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

SHAKESPEARE'S SEXUAL COMEDY A JAirror for Ĺovers
"Almost the twin of my infant daughter, this book was conceived in a Paris fiat on the Left Bank, which was soon to reverberate with the echoes of police batons hammering on študent skulls and the crash of flying cobblestones. In due course it was born into a Berkeley clouded with tear gas, baptized on Telegraph Avenue in coffee shops flanked by the bayonets of the National Guard, and confirmed in university rooms sprinkled with broken glass or stained by arson attempts. Under the circumstances it is unlikely to prove just another academic book about Shakespeare."
So begins the "Early Warning" to Hugh Richmonďs study of sexual relationships in Shakespeare. To a generation jaded by the sterilities of textural criticism, he reasserts that Shakespeare has much to teach us about love; to a society wrenched by facile and violent idealism, he holds up the sane laughter of Beatrice and Benedick, the knowing flexibility of Rosalind, the adroitness of Cleopatra, against Romeo's humorless and death-dealing romanticism. Moving from play to play, Mr. Richmond demonstrates his thesis: far from being something to fall into, love is far too potent and dangerous to be left to the inex-perienced or the doctrinaire. Sexual disaster can be averted only through resilience, realism, and a sense of humor. "Laughter," he con-cludes, "is the only seasoning for love."
Sha\espeare's Sexual Comedy reminds us again that scholarship can be passionate, a devotion as well as a discipline. To read it is Vissza