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By Shakespeare, William; Wells, Robin Headlam; Shakespeare, William

ISBN-10: 0511009577

ISBN-13: 9780511009570

ISBN-10: 0511033648

ISBN-13: 9780511033643

ISBN-10: 0521662044

ISBN-13: 9780521662048

Shakespeare on Masculinity is a vital and unique learn of how Shakespeare's performs have interaction with a topic that provoked sour public dispute. Robin Headlam Wells argues that Shakespeare took a skeptical view of the militant-Protestant cult of heroic masculinity. Following a sequence of awesome pics of the dangerously charismatic warrior-hero, Shakespeare became on the finish of his writing profession to another form of chief. performs receiving shut readings contain The Tempest, Henry V, Troilus and Cressida, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and Coriolanus

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Written at a time when ideas of greatness were the subject of heated debate, these plays represent the age's most sustained and most complex analysis of the dangers of heroic masculinity. 123 124 For Sidney `the scornfullness of the [Hercules and Omphale story] stirreth laughter' (An Apology for Poetry, ed. Shepherd, p. 136). 25, The Poetical Works, ed. Smith and de Selincourt, p. 298). Peggy MunÄoz Simonds, `The Herculean Lover in the Emblems of Cranach and Vaenius', Acta Conventius Neo-Latini Torontonensis: Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of NeoLatin Studies, ed.

44±5). It is Henry's passion for war that particularly interests the bishops. Seeing in this a way out of the church's own problems, Canterbury makes the king an offer: if he will guarantee the security of church lands, the clergy will support a re-opening of the war against France. But before Henry will agree to this proposal he insists on satisfying himself that he does have a legitimate claim to the French crown. The ground is thus prepared for the notorious debate on Salic Law. If it was Shakespeare's intention to portray Henry as the mirror of Christian kings and to justify his aggressive military policies, Canterbury's exposition of Salic Law seems an odd way of going about it.

B2, G3v. 28 Shakespeare on Masculinity marriages for both Henry and Elizabeth, Prospero plans to accomplish his political mission by means of a dynastic alliance. To point to these topical elements in The Tempest is not to say that the play is a panegyric to the patron of the King's Men. Indeed, given the obvious similarities between Prospero and James, it might be thought that Shakespeare was sailing dangerously close to the wind in portraying his paci®st duke as not only neglectful of his political responsibilities, but irritable, vindictive, and, if we can believe Caliban, hated by his fellow islanders.

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