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Shakespeare and social dialogue : dramatic language and Elizabethan letters /

"Shakespeare and Social Dialogue opens up a new approach to Shakespeare's language and the rhetoric of Elizabethan letters. Moving beyond claims about the language of individual Shakespearean characters, Magnusson develops a rhetoric of social exchange to analyze dialogue, conversation, so...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Magnusson, Lynne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 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
  • pt. 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
  • pt. 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.