‘To sin in loving virtue’: desire and possession in Measure for Measure
This essay offers a startling new reading of Shakespeare’s Angelo as a paradoxical if not tragic hero who discovers in his sudden and inexorable impulse to rape a nun in the dark that desire is always more-or-less demonic – even, and perhaps especially, when it is most elevated and for what is most...
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Main Author: | Ewan Fernie |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"
2013-01-01
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Series: | Sillages Critiques |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/2608 |
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