Speech and performance in Shakespeare's sonnets and plays /

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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 Pe...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schalkwyk, David
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616. > Sonnets.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616
Sonnets (Shakespeare, William)
Sonnets, English > History and criticism.
Autobiography in literature.
Speech in literature.
Autobiographie dans la littérature.
Parole dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Shakespeare.
DRAMA > Shakespeare.
Sonnets, English.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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