shakespeare & duality

[davi...@comcast.net]

I am interested in an ANY and ALL literature
that touches on Shakespeare's use of duality:

(A small example from Sonnet 66):

...And gilded honor shamefully misplaced,
And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,
And right perfection wrongfully disgraced,
And strength by limping sway disabled,
And art made tongue-tied by authority,
And folly, doctor-like, controlling skill,
And simple truth miscalled simplicity,
And captive good attending captain ill...

Is there anyone out there not struck
by the Bard's overwhelming and all pervasive use
of binary imagery?

Any and all responses most welcome

[laraine]

Well, this might be a little different, but
when you brought it up, I thought of
'antithesis':

>From JCaes:

BRUTUS:
--Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

....
MARC ANTONY:
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

See
<http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/rhetoric.html#7>

(And, of course, To be or not to be)

C.

[davi...@comcast.net]

>From his most quoted line of all - To be, or not to be... -
through his uncanny intuitive understanding
of the good in evil and evil in good in both events and human behavior,
to the embedding in the very weft and warp of the entire tapestry of
his writing- -
both in prose and poetry -
this quintessential binary principle,
the veritable sperm and egg of human existence,
in my mind's eye, leaps off the page.

I have Googled to see if there is any literature on this topic -
and so far - nothing.
I have also gone on-line to various Shakespearean discussion groups
and asked about this - and so far - (until laraine) nothing but -
(get ready - here it comes)
a deafening silence.

[tre...@yahoo.com]

Check out Robert Grodin's SHAKESPEARE AND RENAISSANCE CONTRARIETY
(1979).

Regards,
Ted R.

[tre...@yahoo.com]

The full title is MIGHTY OPPOSITES: SHAKESPEARE AND RENAISSANCE
CONTRARIETY (1979).

Ted R.