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Shakespeare's sexual comedy : a mirror for lovers

Title
Shakespeare's sexual comedy : a mirror for lovers / Hugh M. Richmond.
Author
Richmond, Hugh M.
Publication
Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, [1971]

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Book/TextUse in library PR2981 .R5 1971Off-site

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Description
vii, 210 pages; 22 cm
Summary
Discusses the sonnets, The Comedy of Errors, Love's Labours Lost, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Measure for Measure, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and others.
Subject
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
  • Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
  • Shakespeare, William
  • Comédie de Genève
  • Sex in literature
  • Humorous plays
  • Sex in literature
  • Erotik Motiv
Genre/Form
  • Book reviews
  • Book reviews.
  • Comptes rendus de livres.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Early Warning -- -- I. Shakespeare's Relevance -- -- II. The Sonnets: Reversal of Expectations in Love -- -- III. Sexual Norms Revised -- The Comedy of Errors, or the Penalties of Virtue -- Love's Labour's Lost: Intellectual Lovers Derided -- The Taming of the Shrew, of How a Talented Woman Can Become a Successful Wife and Be Happy -- -- IV. Low Love and High Passion -- Bottom as Romeo -- Triangles in The Sonnets and The Merchant of Venice -- Rosalind, Helena, and Isabella: the Descent to Sexual Realities -- Desdemona, and Cleopatra's Escape from Tragic Virtue -- -- V. Shakespeare and Modern Sexuality -- Albee's Virginia Woolf and Much Ado -- -- VI. The Self as Work of Art.
LCCN
77155437
OCLC
  • ocm00162579
  • 162579
  • SCSB-14689473
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library