Shakespeare's style PDF
Preview Shakespeare's style
Shakespeare’s Style Shakespeare’s Style Maurice Charney FAIRLEIGHDICKINSONUNIVERSITYPRESS Madison•Teaneck PublishedbyFairleighDickinsonUniversityPress CopublishedbyTheRowman&LittlefieldPublishingGroup,Inc. 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com 16CarlisleStreet,LondonW1D3BT,UnitedKingdom Copyright©2014byMauriceCharney Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Charney,Maurice. Shakespeare'sstyle/MauriceCharney. pagescm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-1-61147-764-1(cloth:alk.paper)--ISBN978-1-61147-765-8(electronic) 1.Shakespeare,William,1564-1616--Literarystyle.I.Title. PR3072.C442014 822.3'3--dc23 2014025021 TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica For Bobbie MuseofDivagations Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi 1 AntipholusofSyracuseasComicHeroinTheComedyofErrors 1 2 TheSatireonLearninginLove’sLabor’sLost 5 3 Richard’sPhysicalDeformitiesin3HenryVIandRichardIII 9 4 TheSardonicAaroninTitusAndronicus 15 5 WhoTamesWhominTheTamingoftheShrew? 21 6 TheConventionsofRomanticLoveinTheTwoGentlemenof Verona 27 7 ThePortentousTragedyofRomeoandJuliet 31 8 AudienceResponsetoRichardinRichardII 37 9 TheFairyWorldofAMidsummerNight’sDream 43 10 Shylock’sMonomaniacalStyleinTheMerchantofVenice 47 11 CommodityandtheBastardinKingJohn 51 12 Falstaff’sHyperboleintheHenryIVPlays 55 13 TheBanishmentofFalstaffintheHenryIVPlays 61 14 Shakespeare’sIlliterates 67 15 TheWitCombatofBeatriceandBenedickinMuchAdoAbout Nothing 73 16 TheRomanStyleofJuliusCaesar 77 17 JaquesasSatiricObserverinAsYouLikeIt 85 18 FesteasCorrupterofWordsinTwelfthNight 89 vii viii Contents 19 HamletasActor 93 20 SexNauseainTroilusandCressida 99 21 ParollestheBraggartinAll’sWellThatEndsWell 105 22 Iago’sandOthello’s“Ha’s” 109 23 LuciotheCalumniatorinMeasureforMeasure 115 24 MadnessinKingLear 119 25 TheMacbeths’sInsomnia 125 26 RomanValuesinAntonyandCleopatra 129 27 TheCultivationofExcessinTimonofAthens 135 28 Coriolanus’sManliness 141 29 TheSaintlyMarinainPericles 145 30 Imogen:RomanceHeroineofCymbeline 149 31 SpeechRhythmsinTheWinter’sTale 153 32 Prospero’s“Art”inTheTempest 159 33 TheTragedyofCardinalWolseyinHenryVIII 165 34 ThePrettyMadnessoftheJailer’sDaughterinTheTwoNoble Kinsmen 171 Conclusion 175 Index 179 AbouttheAuthor 183
The list of books you might like
