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: Relationships
Much Ado about Male Insecurities
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Cuckoldry, Marriage, Much Ado about Nothing, Pete Hegseth, Taming of the Shrew, toxic masculinity, William Shakespeare Leave a comment
Poems that Celebrate Long Marriages
Two poems to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary, by Kunitz and Fanthorpe.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Atlas", "River Merchant's Wife", "Sonnet 116", "Touch Me", "When You Are Old", 50th marriage anniversary, Ezra Pound, Marriage, Stanley Kunitz, U.A. Fanthorpe, W.B. Yeats, William Shakespeare Comments closed
“Othello’s” Toxic Relationships
“Othello” continues to raise urgent questions that we’ve got to grapple with.
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Read “12th Night” for Relationship Advice
In their essays on “Twelfth Night,” my students showed they are hungry for authentic relationships.
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Eternally Damned after Reading a Book
In which I compare Austen’s Marianne and Willoughby to Dante’s Paulo and Francesca.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Castaway", "Task", Alexander Pope, Dante, Desire, Essay on Man, Inferno, James Thomson, Jane Austen, Seasons, Sense and Sensibility, Sir Walter Scott, William Cowper Comments closed
Austen-Like Dating During Covid
Covid is disrupting our dating lives but may as a result have an up-side. Kundera, John Fowles, and Jane Austen explain.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged COVID-19, French Lieutenant's Woman, Jane Austen, John Fowles, Milan Kundera, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, sexuality, Slowness Comments closed
We Are Waiting Rooms at Bus Stations
As poet Marge Piercy sees it, we are bus station waiting rooms through which people pass, each leaving an imprint.
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Female Intimacy in Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf may have used “To the Lighthouse” to explore the possibilities of human intimacy.
Reading Aloud, Shared Intimacy
If you want to become close to someone, read literature aloud. Doing so circumvents defenses and helps you make connections that are otherwise difficult to access.
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