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Who knows what the sonnets mean?,
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This review is from: Shakespeare's Perfume: Sodomy and Sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud, and Lacan (New Cultural Studies) (Hardcover)
Anyone led by the title to seek prurient interest in this book will be disappointed. So also will anyone hoping to end the mystery of why Shakespeare addressed the sonnets to a beautify boy and a "dark lady" of doubtful beauty if not worse. But after a second reading I now know Wilde was far more than a gay master of epigrams, that Freud was artistically sensitive (psychoanalyzing Leonardo) and interested in Egyptian art, that there was more to de Sade than meets the revolted eye, and that the French psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan (as well as post-modern literary criticism), verge on the incomprehensible, as well as many other interesting bits from the pen of this erudite Professor of English Literature in the University of California.
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Shakespeare's Perfume: Sodomy and Sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud, and Lacan (New Cultural Studies) by Richard Halpern (Hardcover - May 1, 2002)
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