The Language of Shakespeare's PlaysFirst published in 1952. This volume explores the function of verse in drama and the developing way in which Shakespeare controlled the rhetorical and decorative elements of speech for the dramatic purpose. The Language of Shakespeare's Plays explores the plays chronologically and so covers all the outstanding problems of Shakespearian language in a way that makes reference easy, without any loss of a continuing narrative. |
Contents
Loves Labours Lost I | 1 |
FROM WORDS TO ACTION AND FROM WORDS | 17 |
Henry VI Parts I II | 31 |
A MidsummerNights Dream | 45 |
Romeo and Juliet | 53 |
Henry IV Part I and Part II | 62 |
The Merry Wives | 76 |
Hamlet | 91 |
Measure for Measure Alls Well That Ends Well | 107 |
Othello and Macbeth | 123 |
King Lear | 146 |
Julius Caesar Antony | 160 |
Cymbeline The Winters Tale The Tempest | 176 |
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