Shakespeare's style / Maurice Charney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Charney, Maurice, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Literary style.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Literary style.

Physical Description:

xxi, 183 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison [New Jersey] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2014]

Summary:

Shakespeare's Style presents a detailed consideration of aspects of Shakespeare's writing style in his plays. Each chapter offers a detailed discussion about a single feature of style in a chosen Shakespeare play Topics examined include a discussion of a key image or images, both verbal and nonverbal; consideration of the way a character is put together; reflection on the changing audience response to a character; and audience response to an account of the speech rhythms of a single play. This book will be of interest to audiences who see Shakespeare's plays, readers of the printed page, and students, aiding them in concentrating on the significant ways that Shakespeare expresses himself. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Antipholus of Syracuse as Comic Hero in The Comedy of Errors 1

2 The Satire on Learning in Love's Labor's Lost 5

3 Richard's Physical Deformities in 3 Henry VI and Richard III 9

4 The Sardonic Aaron in Titus Andronicus 15

5 Who Tames Whom in The Taming of the Shrew? 21

6 The Conventions of Romantic Love in The Two Gentlemen of Verona 27

7 The Portentous Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet 31

8 Audience Response to Richard in Richard II 37

9 The Fairy World of A Midsummer Night's Dream 43

10 Shylock's Mono maniacal Style in The Merchant of Venice 47

11 Commodity and the Bastard in King John 51

12 Falstaff s Hyperbole in the Henry IV Plays 55

13 The Banishment of Falstaff in the Henry IV Plays 61

14 Shakespeare's Illiterates 67

15 The Wit Combat of Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing 73

16 The Roman Style of Julius Caesar 77

17 Jaques as Satiric Observer in As You Like It 85

18 Feste as Corrupter of Words in Twelfth Night 89

19 Hamlet as Actor 93

20 Sex Nausea in Troilus and Cressida 99

21 Parolles the Braggart in All's Well That Ends Well 105

22 Iago's and Othello's "Ha's" 109

23 Lucio the Calumniator in Measure for Measure 115

24 Madness in King Lear 119

25 The Macbeths's Insomnia 125

26 Roman Values in Antony and Cleopatra 129

27 The Cultivation of Excess in Timon of Athens 135

28 Coriolanus's Manliness 141

29 The Saintly Marina in Pericles 145

30 Imogen: Romance Heroine of Cymbeline 149

31 Speech Rhythms in The Winter's Tale 153

32 Prospero's "Art" in The Tempest 159

33 The Tragedy of Cardinal Wolsey in Henry VIII 165

34 The Pretty Madness of the Jailer's Daughter in The Two Noble Kinsmen 171.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781611477641

1611477646

OCLC:

883647301