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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... rhetorical procedures that attempt to work on the feelings and attitudes of their addressees . Austin's analysis of the ways in which an utterance that looks as if it is merely stating something is actually performing something ( and is ...
... rhetorical procedures that attempt to work on the feelings and attitudes of their addressees . Austin's analysis of the ways in which an utterance that looks as if it is merely stating something is actually performing something ( and is ...
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... rhetorical utter- ance , may transform the relationship between addresser and addressee . In Shakespeare's sonnets , language is mobilised not merely to say that things are so , or to move an audience through rhetorical skill , but to ...
... rhetorical utter- ance , may transform the relationship between addresser and addressee . In Shakespeare's sonnets , language is mobilised not merely to say that things are so , or to move an audience through rhetorical skill , but to ...
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... rhetorical appeal may transform a relationship in its very utterance . The public quality of this process is especially important , for it op- erates in the ' eies of men ' . That is to say , being independent of any contingently ...
... rhetorical appeal may transform a relationship in its very utterance . The public quality of this process is especially important , for it op- erates in the ' eies of men ' . That is to say , being independent of any contingently ...
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... rhetorical devices , is to recognise the dynamic quality of interaction and response in the poems . They do not merely describe or state ; they enquire , respond , boast , deny , beg , apologise , promise , complain , scorn , decry ...
... rhetorical devices , is to recognise the dynamic quality of interaction and response in the poems . They do not merely describe or state ; they enquire , respond , boast , deny , beg , apologise , promise , complain , scorn , decry ...
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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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