SOURCE: "Love's Labor's Lost," in Friends and Lovers: The Phenomenology of Desire in Shakespearean Comedy, Columbia University Press, 1985, pp. 110-20.
In this essay, MacCary uses the character Berowne to examine Shakespeare's development of masculine love in the play from an idealized desire of women to a recognition of women as real and therefore unpredictable individuals.
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