Reading Shakespeare's dramatic language : a guide / edited by Sylvia Adamson [and others].

SeriesThe Arden Shakespeare
Arden Shakespeare (Critical studies)
Contents pt. 1. The language of Shakespeare's plays. Heightened language / Ann Thompson ; Style, rhetoric and decorum / Lynne Magnusson ; The grand style / Sylvia Adamson ; Shakespeare's metre scanned / George T. Wright ; Puns and parody / Walter Nash ; Description / William C. Carroll ; Narrative / David Scott Kastan ; Persuasion / Lynette Hunter ; Dialogue / Lynne Magnusson ; Characters in order of appearance / Pamela Mason ; Shakespeare's language in the theatre / Peter Lichtenfels.
Contents pt. 2. Reading Shakespeare's English. Language and the body / Keir Elam ; Varieties and variation / Katie Wales ; Understanding Shakespeare's grammar : studies in small words / Sylvia Adamson ; Shakespeare's new words / Terttu Nevalainen ; Shakespeare's sounds / Roger Lass ; An A-Z of rhetorical terms / Katie Wales.
Local noteLittle-473593--305131069417/
General note"The Arden Shakespeare"--Cover.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 302-315) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Reading Shakespeare's dramatic language. London : AS : Thomson Learning, 2001
ISBN190343629X (pbk.)
ISBN9781903436295 (pbk.)