Male Friendship in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

Thomas MacFaul

earliest edition we have, 2003 Cambridge University Press, 2007 hardcover 234 pages

Renaissance Humanism developed a fantasy of friendship in which men can be absolutely equal to one another, but Shakespeare and other dramatists quickly saw through this rhetoric and developed their own ideas about friendship more firmly based on a respect for human difference. They created a series of brilliant and varied fictions for human connection, as often antagonistic as sympathetic, using these as a means for...

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Male Friendship in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries edition · 2009 · Cambridge University Press · 9780511483738
Male Friendship in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries edition · 2009 · Cambridge University Press · 236 pages · 9780521123174
Male Friendship in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries edition · 2007 · Cambridge University Press · 9780511282478
Male Friendship in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries hardcover · 2007 · Cambridge University Press · 234 pages · 9780521869041
Male Friendship in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries edition · 2003 · Cambridge University Press · 9780511284076

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