Tag Archives: Desire

Eternally Damned after Reading a Book

By Robin Bates | Published: June 23, 2021

In which I compare Austen’s Marianne and Willoughby to Dante’s Paulo and Francesca.

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Desire vs. Law in Shakespeare, Euripides

By Robin Bates | Published: November 6, 2019

If a play turns comic or tragic often depends how how the clash between law and desire is negotiated.

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Why Did Vertigo Top Citizen Kane at #1?

By Robin Bates | Published: September 21, 2012

“Vertigo” is a film about how we are driven by desire and how to achieve it is to lose it.

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The Bard’s Defense of Midsummer Marriage

By Robin Bates | Published: September 9, 2010

Teaching a course in British Fantasy has given me a new perspective on Midsummer Night’s Dream, our first work. The course could be called (borrowing from Bruno Bettelheim) “the uses of enchantment” because our focus is on how and why people turn to fantasy. In our class discussion, we decided that Shakespeare uses his green […]

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