The Language Of Shakespeare's Plays

by Evans,B. I.

• ISBN13: 9780415352857
• ISBN10: 0415352851
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-07-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
The Beginning in Words: Love's Labour's Lost	1	(16)
From Words to Action and from Words to People: The Comedy of Errors; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Taming of the Shrew	17	(14)
The Early Histories: Henry VI, Parts I, II and III; Richard II; Richard III; King John	31	(14)
A Midsummer-Night's Dream	45	(8)
Romeo and Juliet	53	(9)
Henry IV, Part I and Part II	62	(14)
The Middle Comedies: The Merry Wives of Windsor; The Merchant of Venice; Much Ado About Nothing; As You Like It; Twelfth Night	76	(15)
Hamlet	91	(16)
Measure for Measure; All's Well That Ends Well; Troilus and Cressida	107	(16)
Othello and Macbeth	123	(23)
King Lear	146	(14)
The Roman Plays: Julius Caesar; Antony and Cleopatra; Coriolanus	160	(16)
Cymbeline; The Winter's Tale; The Tempest	176	(13)
Index	189