Shakespeare, Rhetoric and Cognition

Lyne addresses a crucial Shakespearean question: why do characters in the grip of emotional crises deliver such extraordinarily beautiful speeches?

List of contents

1. Introduction: 'pity, like a naked new-born babe'; 2. Metaphor, synecdoche and cognition; 3. The drift towards cognition in rhetorical manuals; 4. A Midsummer Night's Dream; 5. Cymbeline; 6. Othello; 7. The Sonnets; Conclusion.

About the author

Raphael Lyne is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Murray Edwards College. He is the author of Ovid's Changing Worlds: English Metamorphoses, 1567–1632 (2001) and Shakespeare's Late Work (2007), as well as the editor (with Subha Mukherji) of Early Modern Tragicomedy (2007).

Summary

Shakespeare's language can be analysed with technical vocabulary, but it can also seem spontaneous, strange and perplexing. This book provides readers with new ways of approaching Shakespeare's language, in particular the richly metaphorical speeches that occur at intensely dramatic moments in works including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello and Cymbeline.

Product details

• Authors: Raphael Lyne, Raphael (Dr Lyne, Lyne Raphael
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.06.2014
• EAN: 9781107417144
• ISBN: 978-1-107-41714-4
• No. of pages: 276
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Language: history & general works, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Language: history and general works, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean