Speech and Performance in Shakespeare's Sonnets and PlaysDavid Schalkwyk offers a sustained reading of Shakespeare's sonnets in relation to his plays. He argues that the language of the sonnets is primarily performative rather than descriptive, and bases this distinction on the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin. In a wide-ranging analysis of both the 1609 Quarto of Shakespeare's sonnets and the Petrarchan discourses in a selection of plays, Schalkwyk addresses such issues as embodiment and silencing, interiority and theatricality, inequalities of power, status, gender and desire, both in the published poems and on the stage and in the context of the early modern period. In a provocative discussion of the question of proper names and naming events in the sonnets and plays, the book seeks to reopen the question of the autobiographical nature of Shakespeare's sonnets. |
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... Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin . In a wide - ranging analysis of both the 1609 quarto of Shakespeare's sonnets and the Petrarchan discourses in a selec- tion of plays , Schalkwyk addresses such issues as embodiment and silencing ...
... Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin . In a wide - ranging analysis of both the 1609 quarto of Shakespeare's sonnets and the Petrarchan discourses in a selec- tion of plays , Schalkwyk addresses such issues as embodiment and silencing ...
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... Wittgenstein to literature . I have benefited in equal measure from his boundless generosity and toughness of mind over the past twenty years . I owe a great deal of per- sonal and intellectual debt for their selfless engagement and ...
... Wittgenstein to literature . I have benefited in equal measure from his boundless generosity and toughness of mind over the past twenty years . I owe a great deal of per- sonal and intellectual debt for their selfless engagement and ...
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... Wittgenstein and John Austin . It enjoyed some status within literary criticism and the- ory in the 1970s and 1980s , but has lately received less attention in the era of high historicism.2 Austin's status within literary theory never ...
... Wittgenstein and John Austin . It enjoyed some status within literary criticism and the- ory in the 1970s and 1980s , but has lately received less attention in the era of high historicism.2 Austin's status within literary theory never ...
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... Wittgenstein and Austin offer a powerful picture of the multifarious ways in which language works as a form of action in the world : negotiating , constituting and informing social and personal relationships in the situations of its ...
... Wittgenstein and Austin offer a powerful picture of the multifarious ways in which language works as a form of action in the world : negotiating , constituting and informing social and personal relationships in the situations of its ...
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... Wittgenstein and Austin's challenge to the view that the indicative is the primary model of language . Wittgenstein based his rev- olutionary critique on painstaking reminders of the myriad of language games in which people engage in ...
... Wittgenstein and Austin's challenge to the view that the indicative is the primary model of language . Wittgenstein based his rev- olutionary critique on painstaking reminders of the myriad of language games in which people engage in ...
Contents
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the sonnets Antony and Cleopatra and As You Like It | 29 |
the sonnets Loves Labours Lost Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night | 59 |
the sonnets Hamlet and King Lear | 102 |
the sonnets Romeo and Juliet Troilus and Cressida and Othello | 150 |
the sonnets and Alls Well that Ends Well | 198 |
Conclusion | 238 |
Bibliography | 243 |
Index | 253 |
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