Speech and Performance in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays

ISBN-13: 9780521811156 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 274 str.

David Schalkwyk

Opis

This analysis of Shakespeare's sonnets in relation to his plays asserts that the language of the sonnets is primarily performative rather than descriptive. It discusses the 1609 quarto of sonnets and the Petrarchan discourses in a selection of plays. David Schalkwyk addresses embodiment and silencing, interiority and theatricality, inequalities of power, status, gender and desire in the published poems, on the stage and in the context of the early modern period.

Recenzje

'Schalkwyk's Speech and Performance in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays is a profound and challenging book … The book will be of interest not only to Shakespeare scholars, but to anyone concerned with the intricate negotiations of self through language.' English Academy Review

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction: the sonnets; 1. Performatives: the sonnets, Antony and Cleopatra and As You Like It; 2. Embodiment: the sonnets, Love's Labour's Lost, Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night; 3. Interiority: the sonnets, Hamlet and King Lear; 4. Names: the sonnets, Romeo and Juliet, Troilus and Cressida and Othello; 5. Transformations: the sonnets and All's Well that Ends Well; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.