Shakespeare and Social Dialogue
Dramatic Language and Elizabethan Letters
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ISBN-13:
9780521030557
Veröffentl:
2006
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
16.08.2006
Seiten:
232
Autor:
Lynne Magnusson
Gewicht:
383 g
Format:
229x152x14 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
An alternative approach to Shakespeare's language and the rhetoric of Elizabethan letters.
This systematic analysis of the rhetoric of social exchange in early modern England opens a new approach to Shakespeare's dialogue and Elizabethan letters. Magnusson draws on modern discourse analysis and sixteenth-century epistolary theory and argues that Shakespeare's language is rooted in the everyday language of Elizabethan culture.
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.