Shakespeare and the nature of love : literature, culture, evolution / by Nordlund, Marcus

Table of Contents: “…The nature of love -- Parental love in two Roman tragedies -- Filial love in King Lear -- Romantic love in two problem plays -- Jealousy in Othello -- Conclusion.…”
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Vital strife : sleep, insomnia, and the early modern ethics of care / by Parris, Benjamin, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Heavy with care: Sleep and ethical life from ancient Greece to early modern England -- Hercules asleep: Stoic oikeiôsis in Jasper Heywood's Hercules Furens -- "The body is with the king, but the king Is not with the body": Sovereign sleep in the tragedies of Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear -- "Watching to banish care": sleep and insomnia in The Faerie Queene -- "Inhabit lax": Insomniac vare and the vital virtue of sleep in Paradise Lost -- Coda: A vital rationality.…”
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Shakespeare's essays : sampling Montaigne from Hamlet to the Tempest / by Platt, Peter G., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…'We are both father and mother together in this generation': Physical and Intellectual Creations in 'Of the Affection of Fathers to Their Children'and King Lear…”
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Forming sleep : representing consciousness in the English Renaissance /

Table of Contents: “…Turner -- Sleep, vulnerability, and self-knowledge in A midsummer night's dream / Jennifer Lewin -- "The heaviness of sleep" : monarchical exhaustion in King Lear / Brian Chalk -- Life and labor in the house of care : Spenserian ethics and the aesthetics of insomnia / Benjamin Parris -- "Sweet moistning sleepe" : perturbations of the mind and rest for the body in Robert Burton's Anatomy of melancholy / Cassie M. …”
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