The disastrous step to marriage as the end of the story, and the assumption of ‘living happily ever after’ had not yet been taken. One of the most si… - Germaine Greer
" "The disastrous
step to marriage as the end of the story, and the assumption
of ‘living happily ever after’ had not yet been taken. One of the most
significant apologists of marriage as a way of life and a road to salvation
was Shakespeare. It is still to be proved how much we owe
of what is good in the ideal of exclusive love and cohabitation to
Shakespeare, but one thing is clear — he was as much concerned in
his newfangled comedies to clear away the detritus of romance,
ritual, perversity and obsession as he was to achieve happy endings,
and many of the difficulties in his plays are resolved when we can
discern this principle at work. Transvestism is a frequently discussed
Shakespearean motif, but it is rarely considered as a mode of revelation
as well as a convention productive of the occasional frisson.
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About Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer (born 29 January 1939) is an Australian author, academic, critic and journalist.
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