Male Friendship in Shakespeare and his ContemporariesRenaissance Humanism developed a fantasy of friendship in which men can 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. Dealing with a wide range of Shakespeare's plays and poems, and with many works of his contemporaries, this study gives readers a deeper insight into a crucial aspect of Shakespeare's culture and his use of it in art. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
2nd edition London A&C Black All’s Allen Lane Andrew Arden Shakespeare Ben Jonson Bevington Brian Caliban and Ariel Cambridge University Press Casebook Basingstoke Chatto & Windus Chicago Press Clarendon Press Comedy of Errors Dalhousie Review David Scott Doctor Faustus Dolan Early Modern England edition Cambridge Elyot England London Enobarbus Erasmus Essays Fletcher Forker Fredson Friendship London Gentlemen of Verona Hamlet Harmondsworth Harvester Wheatsheaf Henry Henry IV Homosexuality Honigmann Iago J.M. Dent John Johnson Jonathan Jowett Kastan Kerrigan King Lear Literary Longman Love and Friendship Lyly Macmillan Male Friendship Manchester University Press Missouri Press Modern England Cambridge Noble Kinsmen Oxford University Press Parolles Patronage Penguin Phenomenology Plato Poems Poetry Renaissance Drama Renaissance Papers Richard Richard II Routledge & Kegan Same-Sex Shakespeare London Shakespeare’s English Shakespeare’s Othello Shakespeare’s Sonnets Stephen Surv Texts Timon of Athens Tragedy trans Tudor University of Chicago University of Missouri Volpone vols William Woodstock York
Bibliographic information
| Title | Male Friendship in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries |
| Author | Thomas MacFaul |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2007 |
| ISBN | 1139464418, 9781139464413 |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Shakespeare |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |