Shakespeare's Style

Maurice Charney

• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781683939078
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: Literature

Shakespeare's Style presents a detailed consideration of aspects of Shakespeare's writing style in his plays. Each chapter offers a detailed discussion about a single feature of style in a chosen Shakespeare play. Topics examine include: a discussion of a key image or images, both verbal and nonverbal; consideration of the way a character is put together; reflection of the changing audience response to a character; and audience response to an account of the speech rhythms of a single play. This book will be of interest to audiences who see Shakespeare's plays, readers of the printed page, and students aiding them in concentrating on the significant ways that Shakespeare expresses himself.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Antipholus of Syracuse as Comic Hero in The Comedy of Errors
• 2 The Satire on Learning in Love’s Labor’s Lost
• 3 Richard’s Physical Deformities in 3 Henry VI and Richard III
• 4 The Sardonic Aaron in Titus Andronicus
• 5 Who Tames Whom in The Taming of the Shrew?
• 6 The Conventions of Romantic Love in The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• 7 The Portentous Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
• 8 Audience Response to Richard in Richard II
• 9 The Fairy World of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• 10 Shylock’s Monomaniacal Style in The Merchant of Venice
• 11 Commodity and the Bastard in King John
• 12 Falstaff’s Hyperbole in the Henry IV Plays
• 13 The Banishment of Falstaff in the Henry IV Plays
• 14 Shakespeare’s Illiterates
• 15 The Wit Combat of Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing
• 16 The Roman Style of Julius Caesar
• 17 Jaques as Satiric Observer in As You Like It
• 18 Feste as Corrupter of Words in Twelfth Night
• 19 Hamlet as Actor
• 20 Sex Nausea in Troilus and Cressida
• 21 Parolles the Braggart in All’s Well That Ends Well
• 22 Iago’s and Othello’s “Ha’s”
• 23 Lucio the Calumniator in Measure for Measure
• 24 Madness in King Lear
• 25 The Macbeths’s Insomnia
• 26 Roman Values in Antony and Cleopatra
• 27 The Cultivation of Excess in Timon of Athens
• 28 Coriolanus’s Manliness
• 29 The Saintly Marina in Pericles
• 30 Imogen
• 31 Speech Rhythms in The Winter’s Tale
• 32 Prospero’s “Art” in The Tempest
• 33 The Tragedy of Cardinal Wolsey in Henry VIII
• 34 The Pretty Madness of the Jailer’s Daughter in The Two Noble Kinsmen
• Conclusion
• Index
• About the Author