Speech and performance in Shakespeare's sonnets and plays /
Schalkwyk, David.
Speech and performance in Shakespeare's sonnets and plays / David Schalkwyk. - Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [(c)2002.] - 1 online resource (ix, 262 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : the sonnets -- Performatives : the sonnets, Antony and Cleopatra and As you like it -- Embodiment : the sonnets, Love's labour's lost, Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night -- Interiority : the sonnets, Hamlet and King Lear -- Names : the sonnets, Romeo and Juliet, Troilus and Cressida and Othello -- Transformations : the sonnets and All's well that ends well.
David Schalkwyk offers a sustained reading of Shakespeare's sonnets in relation to his plays. He argues that the language of the sonnets is primarily performative rather than descriptive. Schalkwyk provides a wide-ranging analysis of both the 1609 quarto of Shakespeare's sonnets and the Petrarchan discourses in a selection of plays.
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GBA2-69969
009415433 Uk
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Sonnets.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Sonnets, English--History and criticism.
Autobiography in literature.
Speech in literature.
Sonnets, English--Criticism and interpretation.
English drama--Criticism and interpretation.--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
Electronic Books.
PR2848
Speech and performance in Shakespeare's sonnets and plays / David Schalkwyk. - Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [(c)2002.] - 1 online resource (ix, 262 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : the sonnets -- Performatives : the sonnets, Antony and Cleopatra and As you like it -- Embodiment : the sonnets, Love's labour's lost, Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night -- Interiority : the sonnets, Hamlet and King Lear -- Names : the sonnets, Romeo and Juliet, Troilus and Cressida and Othello -- Transformations : the sonnets and All's well that ends well.
David Schalkwyk offers a sustained reading of Shakespeare's sonnets in relation to his plays. He argues that the language of the sonnets is primarily performative rather than descriptive. Schalkwyk provides a wide-ranging analysis of both the 1609 quarto of Shakespeare's sonnets and the Petrarchan discourses in a selection of plays.
051106442X 9780511064425 0511072880 9780511072888 0511120222 9780511120220
GBA2-69969
009415433 Uk
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Sonnets.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Sonnets, English--History and criticism.
Autobiography in literature.
Speech in literature.
Sonnets, English--Criticism and interpretation.
English drama--Criticism and interpretation.--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
Electronic Books.
PR2848