Analyzing Shakespeare''s Action - Scene Versus Sequence

Klappentext In this book! Charles and Elaine Hallett invite the reader to follow the actions of Shakespeare's plays. Zusammenfassung Here the authors invite the reader to follow the actions of Shakespeare's plays. They show that the conventional division of the plays into scenes does not help one to discover how the narrative works; and offer instead a division into smaller units which they define as beats! sequences and frames. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; 1. Scene versus sequence in Shakespeare's plays; 2. The beat defined; 3. Ancillary beats: the interval beat, the interpolated beat, the linking beat; 4. Sequential beats: the introductory beat; 5. Sequential beats: the concluding beat; 6. Sequential beats: the intensifying beat; 7. The dramatic question; 8. Observing and meditating sequences; 9. Reporting and interrogating sequences; 10. Persuading sequences; 11. Disputing sequences; 12. Commanding sequences; 13. Sequences combined: the frame; Notes; Glossary; Index of sequences analyzed; General index.

Product details

• Authors: Charles A. Hallett, Charles A. Hallett Hallett, Elaine S. Hallett, Hallett Charles A., Hallett Elaine S.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.04.1991
• EAN: 9780521392037
• ISBN: 978-0-521-39203-7
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean