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Focusing on when Shakespeare's characters speak, rather than what they say, this text 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 pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morgan, Oliver (Researcher of English literature) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford textual perspectives.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism, Textual.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Characters.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Dramatic production.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616
Conversation.
Speech in literature.
Dialogue in literature.
Parole dans la littérature.
Dialogue dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM.
Renaissance.
Direction & Production.
Theater.
PERFORMING ARTS.
Theater
Characters and characteristics
Conversation
Dialogue in literature
Speech in literature
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Speaking when you're spoken to
  • Figures of dialogue
  • Apostrophizing the king
  • Taking asides
  • Have I finished?
  • Aposiopesis and the comforts of rhetoric
  • The terminal comma
  • The play of line and turn.