Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama - Unchaste Signification

Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama explores the fruitful and potentially unruly nature of metaphorical utterances in Shakespearean drama, with analyses of Othello , Titus Andronicus , King Henry IV Part 1 , Macbeth , Hamlet , and The Tempest.

List of contents

Illustration Acknowledgments Preface 'Unchaste Signification': Classical, Elizabethan, and Contemporary Theories of Metaphor Proving Desdemona Haggard: Metaphor and Marriage in Othello 'Martyred Signs': Sacrifice and Metaphor in Titus Andronicus Imperfect Speech: Metaphor and Equivocation in Macbeth 'Base Comparisons': Figuring Royalty in King Henry IV Part 1 'Ears of Flesh and Blood': Dead Metaphors and Ghostly Figures in Hamlet 'Strange Fish': Transport and Translation in The Tempest Works Cited Index

About the author

MARIA FAHEY is Chair of English at Friends Seminary in New York, USA. She has presented her work on Shakespeare and Spenser at conferences of the Modern Language Association, the Shakespeare Association of America, the International Society of the Study of Narrative, the New York Council for the Humanities, and the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

Summary

Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama explores the fruitful and potentially unruly nature of metaphorical utterances in Shakespearean drama, with analyses of Othello , Titus Andronicus , King Henry IV Part 1 , Macbeth , Hamlet , and The Tempest.

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'...provactive...yet another addition to the growing scholarship on the subject of metaphor.' - Jay L. Halio, University of Delaware, Comparative Drama

'...a promising study...splendidly fresh and ingenious.' - Around The Globe

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'...provactive...yet another addition to the growing scholarship on the subject of metaphor.' - Jay L. Halio, University of Delaware, Comparative Drama

'...a promising study...splendidly fresh and ingenious.' - Around The Globe

Product details

• Authors: M Fahey, M. Fahey, Maria F. Fahey, Maria Franziska Fahey
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2011
• EAN: 9781349321506
• ISBN: 978-1-349-32150-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Early Modern Literature in History; Early Modern Literature in His; Early Modern Literature in History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; B, Poetry, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, Theater—History, Theatre History, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, drama;Hamlet;Macbeth;Shakespearean drama;William Shakespeare