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Speech and Performance in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays

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Availability:In StockContributor:David SchalkwykPublish date:2007-04-30Pages:276
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9780521036337ISBN-10:052103633XUPC:9780521036337Book Category:Literary Criticism, Drama, PoetryBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Shakespeare, EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.62 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC7KK4TBBQ

Speech and Performance in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays

This analysis of Shakespeare's sonnets in relation to his plays asserts that the language of the sonnets is primarily performative rather than descriptive. It discusses the 1609 quarto of sonnets and the Petrarchan discourses in a selection of plays. David Schalkwyk addresses embodiment and silencing, interiority and theatricality, inequalities of power, status, gender and desire in the published...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9780521036337ISBN-10:052103633XUPC:9780521036337Book Category:Literary Criticism, Drama, PoetryBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Shakespeare, EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.62 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC7KK4TBBQ
Schalkwyk, David: - David Schalkwyk is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Cape Town. He has published on Shakespeare, literary theory, philosophy, and South African literature in the Shakespeare Quarterly, English Literary Renaissance, the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Pretexts, Linguistic Sciences, Textus, and the...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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