Shakespeare's Plays: Mobilizing Early Modern Ideas about Love and Intimacy

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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
UNDERSTANDING OF THE ISSUE............................................................................................2
How do Shakespeare’s plays mobilise early modern ideas about love and intimacy?................2
ARGUMENT DEVELOPMENT....................................................................................................3
Ways in which the plays Othello and Macbeth uphold...............................................................3
Contest Elizabethan and Jacobean values about romantic love, friendship and familial bonds
and concept of love for hamlet....................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, actor, poet and is known as one of the
greatest writers in English (Minear, 2011). He was also known as Bard of Avon. The idea of love
in most of the plays of Shakespeare was different from others. He says that true love and
friendship guide a person and without true love or friendship any can get lost. Most of his plays
ad tragic end and described ways in which involvement of passion and jealousy in love can lead
a person towards destruction and can reduce regenerator function of love because of which
existence of love can end. This essay will lay emphasis upon ways in which Shakespeare’s plays
mobilise early modern ideas about love and intimacy.
UNDERSTANDING OF THE ISSUE
How do Shakespeare’s plays mobilise early modern ideas about love and intimacy?
Shakespeare’s is known for his romantic plays and act. He has been famous by writing
various books and conducting plays. From star-struck love affairs to marriages built on murder,
Shakespeare has created some unforgettable romantic relationships. This can be better explained
by othello and Macbeth act. The book of the same act was tending to be written in 1603. The act
was based on their two central characters and they have explained about the feelings of intimacy,
jealousy, love and romance. In this act Shakespeare has told the world that anyone should not be
involved in changing one they love. They need to accept who they are and as they are. This is the
true idea of love and it is been explained in this at. Othello was general in Venetian military. The
character was good natured but has shown jealousy at certain moments of time. Shakespeare has
provided the details that if you are in love then you are bounded by the feeling of jealousy. There
is no love without jealousy and the act is based on this. It has also been analysed that
Shakespeare idea of love and intimacy was different from other authors. Through out the act it
has been analysed that Othello made rash decisions based on jealousy. It was the jealousy that
motivates him to do wicked deeds as defined in act. However, the jealousy has overcome the
characters emotions (Schwartz, 2016). It has been analysed that as the play goes on with the
feeling of jealousy Othello will be involved in doing sin. Shakespeare has also said in this act is
that family approval is not everything. If you are truly in love with someone you will be with
them even if no one is them to support. Shakespeare has motivated to fight for one’s love.
Othello was not liked by the audiences because of the wicked and rash decision made by them.
This has made his character a symbol for hatred. However, the act belongs to Othello, lago was
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