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Speech and performance in Shakespeare's sonnets and plays / David Schalkwyk.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [(c)2002.]Description: 1 online resource (ix, 262 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 051106442X
  • 9780511064425
  • 0511072880
  • 9780511072888
  • 0511120222
  • 9780511120220
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PR2848
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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Online Book G. Allen Fleece Library Online Non-fiction PR2848 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocm57204680\

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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