Essays on Courtly Love

Courtly Love vs. True Love In Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, courtly love and true love are portrayed through the light and dark imagery spoken by Romeo, and Juliet. A courtly lover is miserable in his love and is a delusional thinker. He…

If Foucault and Judith Butler are right about the discursive production of identity, subjects, gender, and sexuality, then we are all inheritors of a long history of sexuality (re)unfolding in our lives as if we’re a CD on repeat through all of time. (Who knew…

Feudal Relations and Knighthood Upended The Effects of Courtly Love in Lancelot as Mediated Through Female Figures In Chrétien de Troyes’ Lancelot, multiple female figures continually frame the narrative and push it forward. Major shifts and turns in plot development carefully hinge upon the speech…