Love and Romance | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Cheatham, George. "Imagination, Madness, and Magic: The Taming of the Shrew as Romantic Comedy." Iowa State Journal of Research 59, No. 3 (February 1985): 221-32.
Argues that The Taming of the Shrew resembles Shakespeare's later comedies, like A Midsummer Night's Dream, in that it employs the metaphors of role-playing, madness, and magic to examine the transformative power of love.
Kahn, Coppélia. "'The Savage Yoke': Cuckoldry and Marriage." In Man's Estate: Masculine Identity in Shakespeare, pp. 119-50. University of California Press, 1981.
Analyzes the theme of the married man as cuckold in Shakespeare's plays. Kahn first reviews the motifs associated with cuckoldry in Shakespeare's work and then studies cuckoldry as a "male fantasy of female betrayal" in many of the plays.
Leggati, Alexander. Shakespeare's Comedy of Love....
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