Shakespeare's Tragic Language /

Shakespeare's Tragic Language /

In Shakespearean tragedy, language is used to bring about the downfall of characters, but there is also a tragedy which affects language itself through the decomposition of the fundamental concepts and mythologies which give identity to both societies and individuals. This book shows how in Shakespe...

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Main Author: Hammond, Paul (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Mini-Monographs in Medieval and Early Modern Studies ; 2.

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History.
Literature and Cultural Studies.

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Call Number: D410

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on Texts and Abbreviations
  • Glossary of Rhetorical Terms
  • Prologue: Tragic Language
  • 1 Tragic Language in the Early History Plays
  • 2 Tragic Language in Shakespeare's Rome
  • 3 Language and Dissolution
  • 4 The Tragedy of Coercive Language
  • 5 From Tragedy to Romance
  • Epilogue
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index.