     Shakespea re       COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester,West Sussex Copyright © 2000Columbia University Press All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Charney,Maurice. Shakespeare on love and lust / Maurice Charney. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0–231–10428–6(cloth :alk.paper).– ISBN 0–231–10429–4 (paper :alk.paper) 1. Shakespeare,William,1564–1616–Criticism and interpretation. 2. Love in literature. 3. Gender identity in literature. 4. Lust in literature. 5. Sex in literature. I.Title. PR3069.L6C48 2000 822.3′3–dc21 99-21631 Printed in the United States ofAmerica Casebound editions of Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. c 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 for Paul artist and visionary ÆPGØ CONTENTS acknowledgments ix introduction 1 chapter one Falling in Love:Conventions 9 chapter two Love Doctrine in the Comedies 27 chapter three Love Doctrine in the Problem Plays and Hamlet 63 chapter four Love Doctrine in the Tragedies 79 chapter five Enemies of Love 107 chapter six Gender Definitions 133 chapter seven Homoerotic Discourses 159 chapter eight Love and Lust:Sexual Wit 181 afterword 209 notes 213 index 227 contents vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Shakespeare is quoted throughout from the individual paperback vol- umes of The Complete Signet Classic Shakespeare,ed.Sylvan Barnet (New York:Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,1972),except where otherwise noted. Sylvan Barnet is the general editor and the individual plays have different editors.Note that the line numbering of the individual volumes may be slightly different from the complete volume. The dates of Elizabethan and Jacobean plays are from Alfred Harbage, Annals of English Drama 975–1700,rev.S.Schoenbaum (London:Methuen,1964).For proverbs,I refer to the numbering system in Morris Palmer Tilley,A Dictionary of the Proverbs in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,1966).I have used throughout The Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare, by Marvin Spevack (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,1973).I refer frequently to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). acknowledgments