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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... language , proper names and genre conceptually related to the life of the ... language as a performative force . By focusing on such performative dimensions I ... Games in the Comedies ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1984 ) . A ...
... language , proper names and genre conceptually related to the life of the ... language as a performative force . By focusing on such performative dimensions I ... Games in the Comedies ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1984 ) . A ...
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... language . Wittgenstein based his rev- olutionary critique on painstaking reminders of the myriad of language games in which people engage in the speech that actually constitutes their lives , rather than the arcane archetypes of ...
... language . Wittgenstein based his rev- olutionary critique on painstaking reminders of the myriad of language games in which people engage in the speech that actually constitutes their lives , rather than the arcane archetypes of ...
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... language games and speech acts in particular poems in favour of broad , theoretically driven or historically derived abstrac- tions , has in many cases had a debilitating effect on our sense of the poems precisely as historically ...
... language games and speech acts in particular poems in favour of broad , theoretically driven or historically derived abstrac- tions , has in many cases had a debilitating effect on our sense of the poems precisely as historically ...
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... Language- Countermemory - Practice , ed . Donald F. Bouchard , trans . Donald F. Bouchard and Sheery Simon ( Oxford : Blackwell , 1977 ) . language games in which it is used , Foucault's essay Introduction : the sonnets 17.
... Language- Countermemory - Practice , ed . Donald F. Bouchard , trans . Donald F. Bouchard and Sheery Simon ( Oxford : Blackwell , 1977 ) . language games in which it is used , Foucault's essay Introduction : the sonnets 17.
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David Schalkwyk. language games in which it is used , Foucault's essay may be seen as a response to Barthes's more dogmatic polemic : It is obviously insufficient to repeat empty slogans : the author has disappeared ; God and man died a ...
David Schalkwyk. language games in which it is used , Foucault's essay may be seen as a response to Barthes's more dogmatic polemic : It is obviously insufficient to repeat empty slogans : the author has disappeared ; God and man died a ...
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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