Turn-Taking in Shakespeare

List of contents

• Introduction


• Part One: Sequence


• 1: Speaking when you're spoken to


• 2: Figures of dialogue


• 3: Apostrophising the king


• 4: Taking asides


• Part Two: Timing


• 5: Have I finished?


• 6: Aposiopesis and the comforts of rhetoric


• 7: The terminal comma


• 8: The play of line and turn


• Conclusion

About the author

Oliver Morgan is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge and a College Lecturer at Magdalene College. His research focuses on dialogue, both in the sense of fictionalised conversation (as in a play) and in the sense of literary exchange (as in an answer-poem or aparody).

Summary

Focusing on when Shakespeare's characters speak, rather than what they say, this book investigates what it means for them to speak in or out of turn, to interrupt or overlap, or to fail to speak at all, and how it informs debates about editing, rhetoric, prosody, and early modern performance practices.

Additional text

Shakespeare has seldom been read with a combination of such tact and quantificatory precision ... Morgan's learning and ingenuity are considerable, and he shows beyond any shadow of a doubt that attentiveness to the conventions of conversational exchange (and to the occasions when these conventions are ignored) offers a fresh way of comprehending the plays.

Product details

• Authors: Oliver Morgan, Oliver (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Morgan, Morgan Oliver
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.08.2019
• EAN: 9780198836360
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883636-0
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Oxford Textual Perspectives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, DRAMA / Shakespeare, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Theatre Direction & Production, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Theatre direction and production, Literary studies: plays and playwrights