Love's Labour's Lost (Vol. 64) | Richard Corum (essay date 1999)
Richard Corum (essay date 1999)
SOURCE: “‘The Catastrophe Is a Nuptial’: Love's Labor's Lost, Tactics, Everyday Life,” in Renaissance Culture and the Everyday, edited by Patricia Fumerton and Simon Hunt, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999, pp. 271-98.
[In the following essay, Corum reviews the critical debate concerning the problematic ending of Love's Labour's Lost, reassessing the play as a whole and the ending in particular in terms of its relevance to Elizabethan cultural views on adolescence.]
I always thought marriage was one step away from death.
—Sandra Bullock, The Late Show with David Letterman, 12:10 a.m., Friday, July 25, 1995
In such conditions, the heterogeneous elements, at least as such, find themselves subjected to a de facto censorship. … They cannot be kept within the field of consideration.
—Georges Bataille,...
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