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Hall understands love both within and beyond sexuality and understands verbal and dramatic form as constitutive of both.This is that rare book on Shakespeare that teachers can usefully deploy in the classroom.Highly recommended.--N. Birns, New York University ""CHOICE"" Joan Lord Hall opens a kaleidoscope in this riveting book, which combines sharp historical focus with a vista onto the endlessly moveable erotic possibilities in the poems and plays. This is a true labour of love, the distillation of a lifetime thinking through Shakespeare in his time and our own.--Richard Wilson, Kingston University [Sexual Desire and Romantic Love in Shakespeare] has a number of strengths, including the immense depth and scope with which it analyzes Shakespeare's language of love and lust. It is written in a straightforward style and is free of jargon, making it approachable and accessible for non-experts and students.--Valerie Billing, Central College ""Renaissance Quarterly""

"Hall understands love both within and beyond sexuality and understands verbal and dramatic form as constitutive of both.This is that rare book on Shakespeare that teachers can usefully deploy in the classroom.Highly recommended.--N. Birns, New York University ""CHOICE"" Joan Lord Hall opens a kaleidoscope in this riveting book, which combines sharp historical focus with a vista onto the endlessly moveable erotic possibilities in the poems and plays. This is a true labour of love, the distillation of a lifetime thinking through Shakespeare in his time and our own.--Richard Wilson, Kingston University [Sexual Desire and Romantic Love in Shakespeare] has a number of strengths, including the immense depth and scope with which it analyzes Shakespeare's language of love and lust. It is written in a straightforward style and is free of jargon, making it approachable and accessible for non-experts and students.--Valerie Billing, Central College ""Renaissance Quarterly"""

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Joan Lord Hall, Professor Emerita in English, University of Colorado.

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