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Speech and Performance in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays

By David Schalkwyk

Book information

Year
2002
ISBN
9780511064425, 9780521811156, 0521811155
LCC
PR2848 .S37 2002
Open Library ID
OL3731278M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1821313 bytes)
Pages
272\274
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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 poems, on the stage and in the context of the early modern period.

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