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Shakespeare and Social Dialogue : Dramatic Language and 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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Magnusson, Lynne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Politeness and dramatic character in Henry VIII; CHAPTER 2 "Power to hurt": language and service in Sidney household letters and Shakespeare's sonnets; CHAPTER 3 Scripting social relations in Erasmus and Day; CHAPTER 4 Reading courtly and administrative letters; CHAPTER 5 Linguistic stratification, merchant discourse, and social change; CHAPTER 6 The pragmatics of repair in King Lear and Much Ado About Nothing; CHAPTER 7 "Voice potential": language and symbolic capital in Othello; Notes; Bibliography; Index.