Size: 6x0x9; Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear.

Size: 6x0x9; Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Bookseller's sticker. Clean, unmarked pages. The complex and sometimes contradictory expressions of love in Shakespeare's works-ranging from the serious to the absurd and back again-arise primarily from his dramatic and theatrical flair rather than from a unified philosophy of love. Untangling his witty, bawdy (and ambiguous) treatment of love, sex, and desire requires a sharp eye and a steady hand. In Shakespeare on Love and Lust, noted scholar Maurice Charney delves deeply into Shakespeare's rhetorical and thematic development of this largest of subjects to reveal what makes his plays and poems resonate with contemporary audiences.