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Love, death, and fortune : central concepts in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet / Birte Sause.

Title: Love, death, and fortune : central concepts in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet / Birte Sause.
Author: Sause, Birte, 1973-
Publication: Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, ©2013.

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313 pages color illustrations; 22 cm.

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Studien zur Germanistik und Anglistik ; Bd. 21

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Studien zur Germanistik und Anglistik ; Bd. 21.

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Machine generated contents note: 1.Foreword -- 2.The concept of love -- 2.1.The Rosaline episode: The tradition of courtly love, anti-Petrarchism, and its ideological relevance -- 2.2.The love of Romeo und Juliet -- 2.2.1.Love, beauty, and the universal order: neo-Platonism, the early modern love paradigm, and Castiglione's Platonic Ascent -- 2.2.2.Analysis and interpretation of the encounters of Romeo and Juliet -- 2.3.More loves: The convention of the arranged marriage, Lord Capulet's mouse-hunt, the no lover nor loved's libido and sadism, and homoerotic friendship -- 3.The concept of fortune -- 3.1.The relevance of fortune in Elizabethan England -- 3.2.The triad of Fortune, astral influences, and divine providence -- 3.3.Allegory of ambivalence: Fortuna Utraque, the wheel of fortune, Fortuna Naufraga, and the blindness of luck -- 3.4.Elizabeth as "Queene of Chance": the moon, Diana, Virtue-Elizabeth, and lunar hermaphroditism -- 4.The concept of death --
Contents note continued: 4.1.Early modern attitudes: Ars moriendi and memento mori, and the moral dilemmas of suicides and avengers -- 4.2.The connection between sleep and death -- 4.3.Æstheticising the unspeakable: Ugly death, the allegory of the danse macabre, and the Eros-Thanatos motif -- 5.What's in a name? - The main characters -- 5.1.The Capulets -- 5.2.The Montagues -- 5.3.The representatives of the public -- 6.Romeo and Juliet and the concept of romantic love.

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