Male friendship in Shakespeare and his contemporaries
Renaissance humanism developed a fantasy of friendship in which men could be absolutely equal to one another, but Shakespeare and other dramatists quickly saw through this rhetoric and developed their own ideas about friendship more firmly based on a respect for human difference. They created a series of brilliant and varied fictions for human connection, as often antagonistic as sympathetic, using these as a means for individuals to assert themselves in the face of social domination. Whilst the fantasy of equal and permanent friendship shaped their thinking, dramatists used friendship most effectively as a way of shaping individuality and its limitations
Print Book, English, ©2007
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, ©2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xi, 222 pages ; 24 cm
9780521869041, 9780511284076, 9780521123174, 9780511321771, 0521869048, 0511284071, 0521123178, 0511321775
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True friends?
Momentary mutuality in Shakespeare's sonnets
Friends and brothers
Love and friendship
Servants
Political friendship
Fellowship
False friendship and betrayal
Conclusion : 'Time must friend or end.'
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