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Wanton words : rhetoric and sexuality in English Renaissance drama /

"In Wanton Words, Madhavi Menon intimately and expertly couples classical and Renaissance handbooks of rhetoric with canonical Renaissance plays and demonstrates their shared propensity to speak about sex - often transgressive sex - in the same instance that they speak about the workings of lan...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Menon, Madhavi
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreplay
  • 1 Setting the Stage: Metaphor
  • 2 Performance Anxiety: Metonymy, Richard II, The Roaring Girl
  • 3 First Night: Metalepsis, Romeo and Juliet, All's Well that Ends Well
  • 4 Cast in Order of Appearance: Catachresis, Othello, King John
  • 5 Encore! Allegory, Volpone, The Tempest
  • After Words: Henry VIII and the Ends of History
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • V
  • W
  • Y