The Structure of Love: Representational Patterns and Shakespeare's Love Tragedies

by Michael Hall, Simon Rattle

A structural approach to the works of Shakespeare. The authors analysis of individual plays is concerned mostly with how a group of exterior systems (authors typology of sexual relationships) are recognized & incorporated into interior systems. Chapters include: the structure of love: then; the structure of love: now; creating the heroines: the comedies; the paradise of flesh: Romeo & Juliet; magic in the structure: Othello; words, words, mere words: Troilus & Cressida; & the gap in nature: Antony & Cleopatra.

189 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

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For the children's author, see Michael Hall. For the author of the Island Pamphlets (Northern Ireland), see Michael Hall.