Pericles (Vol. 51) | John Dean (essay date 1979)
John Dean (essay date 1979)
SOURCE: "The Theme of Love in Shakespeare's Romances," in Elizabethan and Renaissance Studies, Vol. 86: Restless Wanderers: Shakespeare and the Pattern of Romance, edited by Dr. James Hogg, Institut Für Anglistik Und Amerikanistik der Universitat Salzburg, 1979, pp. 264-77.
[In the excerpt below, Dean argues that Shakespeare contrasts healthy and immoral forms of love in Pericles.]
"Hear my soul speak."
The Tempest
1 Love in the Literature of Romance
Throughout all of Shakespeare's romances there is a strain of théâtre à thèse, that type of theatre which in an earlier form had all but destroyed the dramatic feasibility of Timon of Athens, The thesis which Shakespeare develops in each one of his romances is a variation on the theme of how love may be found, lost, and recovered. Each of Shakespeare's...
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