Lynne Magnusson

Shakespeare and Social Dialogue

Dramatic Language and Elizabethan Letters

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An alternative approach to Shakespeare's language and the rhetoric of Elizabethan letters.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9780521030557
• ISBN-10: 0521030552
• Artikelnr.: 21053215

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. The Rhetoric of Politeness: 1. Politeness and dramatic character in Henry VIII
2. 'Power to hurt': language and service in Sidney household letters and Shakespeare's sonnets
Part II. Eloquent Relations in Letters: 3. Scripting social relations in Erasmus and Day
4. Reading courtly and administrative letters
5. Linguistic stratification, merchant discourse, and social change
Part III. A Prosaics of Conversation: 6. The pragmatics of repair in King Lear and Much Ado About Nothing
7. 'Voice potential': language and symbolic capital in Othello
Notes
Bibliography
Index.