David Schalkwyk is Academic Director of Global Shakespeare and has a Chair in Shakespeare Studies at Queen Mary University of London. He was formerly Director of Research at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC and editor of the Shakespeare Quarterly. His books include Speech and Performance in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays (Cambridge, 2002), Literature and the Touch of the Real (2004), and Shakespeare, Love and Service (Cambridge, 2008), Hamlet's Dreams: The Robben Island Shakespeare (2013) and The Word Against the World: The Bakhtin Circle (2016).
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Introduction. 1. Shaping fantasies 2. Love's troubled consummations 3. The impossible gift of love 4. The finality of the you 5. Is love an emotion?
