Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations, Volume 13Gale Research Company, 1984 |
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Page 177
... speech , his " conception of language , " his " linguistic world " ( 42-43 ) . Thus Richard II is reduced to a play about speech - act theory . Richard misfires because his tendency to use language poetically derives from an ...
... speech , his " conception of language , " his " linguistic world " ( 42-43 ) . Thus Richard II is reduced to a play about speech - act theory . Richard misfires because his tendency to use language poetically derives from an ...
Page 226
... speech may be . ' What Titus wants to say is usually clear . As the play pro- gresses , however , whether language is to be taken figura- tively or literally comes to depend on characters ' subse- quent actions . Titus , viewing the ...
... speech may be . ' What Titus wants to say is usually clear . As the play pro- gresses , however , whether language is to be taken figura- tively or literally comes to depend on characters ' subse- quent actions . Titus , viewing the ...
Page 414
... speech at length because it seems to me to show Shakespeare using and subverting the rhetoric of Pandosto , all to his own particular end . The effect of Camillo's speech is not to clarify but to confuse : to suggest a blurring of ...
... speech at length because it seems to me to show Shakespeare using and subverting the rhetoric of Pandosto , all to his own particular end . The effect of Camillo's speech is not to clarify but to confuse : to suggest a blurring of ...
Contents
Camille Wells Slights The Raw and the Cooked in The Taming of the Shrew | 11 |
A Reading of The Two Gentlemen | 18 |
Festive Theory | 36 |
Copyright | |
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