The men in Much Ado about Nothing are obsessed with cuckoldry. Out of the play, however, arises a revolutionary vision of how male-female relationships could be.
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Tag Archives: Marriage
Much Ado about Male Insecurities
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A Love Poem to a Long Marriage
A love poem from my wife, which I share on our 53rd wedding anniversary.
Looking Back at a Lifetime Together
In the latest memoir installment, I look back at my marriage to Julia.
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Early Scenes from a Marriage
My memoir continued, this time looking at my relationship with Julia during our grad school years in Atlanta.
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On Lawrence and a Sexual Awakening
In my latest life in literature installment, I look at the impact of D.H. Lawrence on my college relationship with my future wife.
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Discovering Parental Love Letters
Discovering my parents’ love letters, I discover they foreshadow my own relationship with Julia. Both involved a lot of poetry
One Man Loved the Pilgrim Soul in You
In which I explain how Yeats’s “When You Are Old and Gray” frames the dedication that opens my book.
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