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How does Shakespeare's treatment of human sexuality relate to the sexual conventions and language of his times? Wells draws on historical and anecdotal sources to present an account of sexual behavior in Shakespeare's time, particularly in Stratford-upon-Avon and London. He explores sexuality in the poetry of the period and the ways in which Shakespeare treats sexuality in his plays and relates sexuality to love.
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"The complex and sometimes contradictory expressions of love in Shakespeare's works - ranging from the serious to the absurd and back again - arise primarily from his dramatic and theatrical flair rather than from a unified philosophy of love. Untangling his witty, bawdy (and ambiguous) treatment of love, sex, and desire requires a sharp eye and a steady hand. In Shakespeare on Love & Lust, Maurice Charney delves deeply into Shakespeare's rhetorical...
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The screenplay to the critically acclaimed film which New York Newsday called one of the funniest, most enchanting, most romantic, and best written tales ever spun from the vast legend of Shakespeare. Marc Norman and renowned dramatist, Tom Stoppard have created the best screenplay of the year according to the Golden Globes and the New York Film Critics Circle.
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Philip Cumbus is the King of Navarre and Michelle Terry is the Princess of France in this performance of Love's Labour's Lost at Shakespeare's Globe, London's faithful reconstruction of the open-air playhouse designed in 1599. True to the play's original Renaissance staging and costume, this production is a festive parade of every weapon in the youthful Shakespeare's comic arsenal-excruciating cross-purposes, silly impersonations, drunkenness, bust-ups,...
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"Shows that what distinguishes the comedies is not their similarity but their variety - the way in which each play is a new experiment, a new combination of essentially the same ingredients... By approaching each play as an individual work of art, related to its predecessors, but essentially autonomous, the author is able to examine it with the clarity of perception that characterises the best theatrical approaches to Shakespeare (and, indeed, the...
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Combining Italian travelogue with revelations about the Bard's most famous works, Francesco da Mosto considers Shakespeare's relationship to Italy, where he set many of his greatest love plays. Shakespeare revealed a detailed knowledge of contemporary Italian life, and a deep understanding of the Italian spirit. He traces the Italian stories Shakespeare borrowed from and considers theories on how Shakespeare gained his knowledge of Italy: some say...
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"The album is a collection of original compositions accompanied by beloved texts by the most performed playwright in the world-- William Shakespeare. I've collaborated with some of the most revered actors of our day to record spoken word versions of each of these 9 Sonnets, including Helena Bonham Carter, Siân Phillips, Peter Eyre, Carrie Fisher, Inge Keller and William Shatner"--Rufus Wainwright.
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Nothing Like the Sun is a fictional biography of William Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess first published in 1964. It tells the story of Shakespeare's life with a mixture of fact and fiction, the latter including an affair with a black prostitute named Fatimah, who inspires the Dark Lady of the Sonnets.
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"Evolutionary biologist Gordon H. Orians explores the role of evolution in human responses to the environment, beginning with why we have emotions and ending with evolutionary approaches to aesthetics. Orians reveals how our emotional lives today are shaped by decisions our ancestors made centuries ago on African savannas as they selected places to live, sought food and safety, and socialized in small hunter-gatherer groups. During this time our likes...
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