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Speech and performance in Shakespeare's sonnets and plays /

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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Schalkwyk, David
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.