Structure of Love: Representational Patterns and Shakespeareªs Love Tragedies

A structural approach to the works of Shakespeare. The author s analysis of individual plays is concerned mostly with how a group of exterior systems (author s 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.