A Restless play of affective infections
Gendered spherology in Love’s Labour’s Lost
Keywords:
emission theory, gendered space, microspherology, Petrarch, ShakespeareAbstract
The article examines Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost from the perspective of microspherology and argues the play spatially satirizes Petrarchan rhetoric in which women’s eyes emit light that affect and infect men. If the male academe is perceived as a microspheric project that is influenced by the beams emitted from the women’s eyes, as per the emission theory prevalent in Shakespeare’s time, the play’s blurrings of gendered space can be better understood. The imagery of faces, vision, and light open a view into what Peter Sloterdijk refers to as early modernity’s “restless play of affective infections” arising between subjects in shared space.
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