"Divisive Desires in The Two Noble Kinsmen" https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc2060/ Author: Nordlund, Marcus. Type: Book Chapter Year: 2013 Publication Information: Cullhed, Pangs of Love and Longing: Configurations of Desire in Premodern Literature, 130–43. : Cullhed, Pangs of Love and Longing: Configurations of Desire in Premodern Literature Annotation: Examines the issues of love and desire as "something divisive and divisible" in Two Noble Kinsmen. Argues that in the play "Shakespeare and [John] Fletcher remind us of love's tendency" of joining people together; and its tendency of dividing people from each other as well as themselves in "quasi-mathematical terms." Language: English Persons: Cullhed, Anders; Franzén Carin; Hallengren, Anders; Malm, Mats; Fletcher, John Tags: Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, The Two Noble Kinsmen WSB Update: Summer 2015 WSB Record Number: bbbc2060