%0 Journal Article %T ¡±The pangs of dispriz¡¯d love¡± ¡ª On some Discourses of Amorous Melancholy in Shakespeare %A Mireille RAVASSAT %J E-rea : Revue ¨¦lectronique d¡¯¨¦tudes sur le Monde Anglophone %D 2006 %I %R 10.4000/erea.402 %X Before exploring some Elizabethan paradigms of the discourse of love melancholy and some tropes of sensitivity and suffering, I would like to dwell on a thought-provoking statement due to David Schalkwyk in his article, ¡°Love and Service in Twelfth Night and the Sonnets¡± (The Shakespeare Quarterly Vol. 56, 76). His development ¡ª and I must say I fully adhere to his train of thought ¡ª begins this way: ¡°Love has all but vanished from current critical discourse. Since the theoretical transformat... %U http://erea.revues.org/402