Synopses & Reviews
This is a collection of essays by distinguished Shakespeare critics and scholars on various aspects of Shakespeare's styles and use of language. The book has been devised to honour the life-long devotion of Professor Kenneth Muir to Shakespeare studies.
Synopsis
As a tribute to Kenneth Muir's life-long devotion to the study of Shakespeare, three senior Shakespeare scholars have asked colleagues to give an account of particularly important or interesting features of Shakespeare's use of language. The cumulative effect will enable readers, students and theatre-goers to come to a greater awareness of the richness and subtlety of 'Shakespeare's styles'.
Synopsis
Shakespeare scholars give an account of particularly important or interesting features of Shakespeare's use of language.
Table of Contents
Preface; 1. Rhetoric and insincerity L. C. Knights; 2. Some aspects of style in the Henry VI plays Wolfgang Clemen; 3. Poem and context in Love's Labour's Lost G. K. Hunter; 4. The declaration of love Philip Edwards; 5. Juliet's Nurse: the uses of inconsequentiality Stanley Wells; 6. Language most shows a man...? Language and speaker in Macbeth Nicholas Brooke; 7. Poetic language and dramatic significance in Shakespeare R. A. Foakes; 8. Feliciter audax: Antony and Cleopatra, 1,i,1-24 G. R. Hibbard; 9. 'My name is Marina': the language of recognition Inga-Stina Ewbank; 10. Leontes and the spider: language and speaker in Shakespeare's Last Plays Anne Barton; 11. Shakespeare's 'bombast' E. A. J. Honigmann; 12. The defence of paradox Geoffrey Bullough; 13. 'True, gallant Raleigh': some off-stage conversations in Shakespeare's plays A. C. Sprague; 14. Shakespeare's recollections of Marlowe M. C. Bradbrook; 15. Shakespeare's Dark Lady: a question of identity S. Schoenbaum; 16. Checklist of writings by Kenneth Muir, 1937-1979; Index.