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Will & Love
Darren Dyck
其他書名
Shakespeare and the Motion of the Soul
出版
Wipf and Stock Publishers
, 2023-03-10
主題
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Modern / 17th Century
Religion / Christianity / Literature & the Arts
ISBN
1666738360
9781666738360
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=xy2zEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Will & Love
examines four of Shakespeare’s love plays (
Romeo and Juliet
,
Troilus and Cressida
,
Twelfth Night
, and
Antony and Cleopatra
) in light of the Augustinian psychology at the heart of the theological romance tradition. This tradition, which Shakespeare inherits from medieval theologian-poets such as Boethius, Dante, Petrarch, and Chaucer, issues from the idea, initially expressed by Augustine in his
Confessions
, that love functions as volitional weight, as a kind of magnetism or almost-gravitational force—that it
moves
the lover in mysterious ways yet without diminishing his or her agency.
Will & Love
highlights Shakespeare’s conception of love in terms of motion and explores the metaphysical, ethical, psychological, and dramatic implications of his doing so.