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This book 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.
List of contents
Contents
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: Romance Heroine of Cymbeline
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
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By Maurice Charney
Summary
This book 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.
