Introduction: Re-characterizing Dramatic Shakespearean Character
Chapter 1: Falstaff’s Roundness and Gricean Implicature
Chapter 2: 'Rare Egyptian': Reported Speech and Cleopatra’s Sexual Charisma
Chapter 3: The Actor-Character’s Tricks: Katherine’s Performative Power in The Taming of the Shrew
Chapter 4: Revisiting the ‘Rabbit-Duck’: Pragma-Rhetoric and Henry V’s Moral Ambivalence
Coda: Nobody There: Hamlet’s Interiority and Pragmatic Failure
Notes
Bibliography
Index