Love's Labour's Lost Sex Quotes Page 3
Citations follow this format: (Act.Scene.Line)
| Quote #7 MARIA: You Still wrangle with her, Boyet, and she strikes at the brow. |
Rosaline may have won this round of wit with Boyet – but she can't win against her sexual desire. This mind/body divide is a big theme in the play.
| Quote #8 NATHANIEL: Sir, I praise the Lord for you, and so may my parishioners; for their sons are well tutor'd by you, and their daughters profit very greatly under you. |
Yes, Holofernes seems to also have his mind in the gutter. The love fever affects almost every character in the play, even the learnèd and scholarly teacher.
| Quote #9 BEROWNE: This is the liver-vein, which makes flesh a deity…(4.3.15) |
Berowne overhears Longaville fantasizing about paradise with Katharine. In Elizabethan science, the liver was considered the source of sexual desire.
