King Richard III: Language and Writing
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King Richard III: Language and Writing

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
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King Richard III: Language and Writing

About this book

A new type of study aid which combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the critical writings skills students need to develop in order to engage fully with Shakespeare's texts. The book's core focus is on language: both understanding and enjoying Shakespeare's complex dramatic language, and expanding the student's own critical vocabulary as they respond to the play.
The book explores several different approaches to Shakespeare's language. It looks at how the subtleties of Shakespeare's language reveal the thought processes and motivations of his characters, often in ways those characters themselves don't recognise; it analyses how Shakespeare's language works within or sometimes against various historical contexts, the contexts of stage performance, of genre and of discourses of his day (of religion, law, commerce, and friendship); and it explores how the peculiarities of Shakespeare's language often point to broad issues, themes, or ways of thinking that transcend any one character or line of action. Each chapter includes a "Writing Matters" section, giving students ideas and guidance for building their own critical response to the play and the skills to articulate it with confidence.

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Information

Publisher
The Arden Shakespeare
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781474253345
eBook ISBN
9781474253376
Edition
1
Topic
Littérature
Subtopic
Théâtre shakespearien
LANGUAGE 
IN 
PRINT: 
WORDS, 
LINES, 
SPEECHES
75
extremes—that 
of 
a 
man 
who 
is 
not 
eminently 
good 
and 
just, 
yet 
whose 
misfortune 
is 
brought 
about 
not 
by 
vice 
or 
depravity, 
but 
by 
some 
error 
or 
frailty. 
He 
must 
be 
one 
who 
is 
highly 
renowned 
and 
prosperous—a 
personage 
like 
Oedipus, 
Thyestes, 
or 
other 
illustrious 
men 
of 
such 
families. 
Of 
the 
“bad 
man 
passing 
from 
adversity 
to 
prosperity” 
Aristotle 
claims 
“nothing 
can 
be 
more 
alien 
to 
the 
spirit 
of 
Tragedy.” 
But 
this 
is, 
arguably, 
what 
Richard 
III
offers. 
The 
play 
also 
offers 
“the 
downfall 
of 
the 
utter 
villain,” 
a 
problematic 
and 
untragic 
plot 
that, 
even 
if 
it 
satisfies 
the 
audience 
morally, 
“would 
inspire 
neither 
pity 
nor 
fear.” 
Consider 
the 
question 
of 
Richard 
III
as 
tragedy, 
as 
its 
title 
page 
announces. 
Does 
the 
play 
unexpectedly 
inspire 
pity 
or 
fear 
in 
the 
manner 
of 
Aristotelian 
tragedy, 
even 
if 
it 
does 
depict 
the 
downfall 
of 
a 
villain? 
Might 
Richard 
be 
more 
complex 
than 
a 
mere 
“utter 
villain”? 
In 
other 
words, 
does 
the 
tragedy 
of 
Richard 
III
push 
back 
against 
the 
Aristotelian 
definition 
of 
the 
genre, 
which 
insists 
that 
a 
play 
centered 
on 
a 
bad 
man 
cannot 
be 
tragedy? 
If 
so, 
how 
might 
you 
shape 
another 
definition 
of 
the 
genre, 
to 
account 
for 
Shakespeare’s 
play? 
76

Table of contents

  1. Cover page
  2. Halftitle page
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. CONTENTS
  7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  8. PREFACE
  9. Introduction
  10. CHAPTER ONE Language in Print: Words, Lines, Speeches
  11. CHAPTER TWO Language and Structure
  12. CHAPTER THREE Language Through Time
  13. CHAPTER FOUR Writing Tips and Topics
  14. BIBLIOGRAPHY