The Artistry of Shakespeare's ProseRoutledge, 2013 M09 13 - 464 pages First published in 1968. This re-issues the revised edition of 1979. The Artistry of Shakespeare's Prose is the first detailed study of the use of prose in the plays. It begins by defining the different dramatic and emotional functions which Shakespeare gave to prose and verse, and proceeds to analyse the recurrent stylistic devices used in his prose. The general and particular application of prose is then studied through all the plays, in roughly chronological order. |
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... repetitions of keywords which F. C. Kolbe has documented.3 ii. situational imagery: whereas thematic imagery represents the movement of the whole play, this category dramatizes an important situation within it; such as the trap as an ...
... repetitions of keywords which F. C. Kolbe has documented.3 ii. situational imagery: whereas thematic imagery represents the movement of the whole play, this category dramatizes an important situation within it; such as the trap as an ...
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... repetition and digression; and various individualizing linguistic abnormalities: catch-phrases, foreign or regional English, modish affectations, an exaggerated fondness for proverbs, and unusual syntax, either over-elaborate or ...
... repetition and digression; and various individualizing linguistic abnormalities: catch-phrases, foreign or regional English, modish affectations, an exaggerated fondness for proverbs, and unusual syntax, either over-elaborate or ...
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... refer to some of the figures by name, where appropriate, starting with the one most relevant here, the four types pun (which Sister Joseph lists on pp. 165–6): of antanaclasis: repetition of words, shifting from one meaning to another.
... refer to some of the figures by name, where appropriate, starting with the one most relevant here, the four types pun (which Sister Joseph lists on pp. 165–6): of antanaclasis: repetition of words, shifting from one meaning to another.
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... repetition of words nearly alike in sound, (e.g. Falstaff (to Hal): 'Were it not here apparent that thou art heir apparent' (1 Henry IV, I, ii). syllepsis: use of word having simultaneously two different meanings, but not repeated ...
... repetition of words nearly alike in sound, (e.g. Falstaff (to Hal): 'Were it not here apparent that thou art heir apparent' (1 Henry IV, I, ii). syllepsis: use of word having simultaneously two different meanings, but not repeated ...
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... repetition work together (and we usually find two or three being used at the same time, so sharpening each other's effect), and produce a simple structure, noticeable to the ear in terms of recurrent sounds or pauses or echoeffects, and ...
... repetition work together (and we usually find two or three being used at the same time, so sharpening each other's effect), and produce a simple structure, noticeable to the ear in terms of recurrent sounds or pauses or echoeffects, and ...
Contents
From Clown to Character | |
The World of Falstaff | |
Gay Comedy | |
Two Tragic Heroes | |
Serious Comedy | |
Clowns Villians Madmen | |
The Return of Comedy | |
Conclusion | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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