Comprehensive study of the concept of love in Shakespeare's work, exploring historical contexts, theory and philosophy of love.

Peter Laslett's comment, in The World We Have Lost, that in the early modern period 'every relationship could be seen as a love-relationship' presents the gover

This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to J

The complex and sometimes contradictory expressions of love in Shakespeare's works—ranging from the serious to the absurd and back again—arise primarily fro

Reveals the influence of the Renaissance scholar-priest Marsilio Ficino on Shakespeare and how the Neoplatonic philosophy of love shaped the inner meaning of hi