Discovering Shakespeare's MeaningPreface - Acknowledgements - Verse and Prose - Imagery and Spectacle - Shakespeare's Expositions - Plays within Plays - Parallel Actions - The Treatment of Character - The Use of the Soliloquy - Art and Artifice - Conclusion: Discovering Shakespeare's Meaning - Index |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 46
Page 76
... sense of unfamiliarity which the language as a whole promotes . In short , where the informal , personal style of King Lear creates the illusion of real people talking to one another in a universe not unlike the spectator's own , the ...
... sense of unfamiliarity which the language as a whole promotes . In short , where the informal , personal style of King Lear creates the illusion of real people talking to one another in a universe not unlike the spectator's own , the ...
Page 151
... sense of self - hood is , and how dependent human happiness and security are upon an acknowledged status within the social group . The reader or theatre - goer who approaches The Comedy of Errors with the assumption that the play will ...
... sense of self - hood is , and how dependent human happiness and security are upon an acknowledged status within the social group . The reader or theatre - goer who approaches The Comedy of Errors with the assumption that the play will ...
Page 168
... sense of what constitutes an appropriate end for Coriolanus , and no means of assessing the degree of his success or failure . His death at the hands of his former allies is the product of a decision that the members of the audience can ...
... sense of what constitutes an appropriate end for Coriolanus , and no means of assessing the degree of his success or failure . His death at the hands of his former allies is the product of a decision that the members of the audience can ...
Contents
Imagery and Spectacle | 31 |
Shakespeares Expositions | 61 |
Plays within Plays | 86 |
Copyright | |
5 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
action actors allows Antony appears attention awareness becomes begins blank verse Brutus central characters Claudius close communicate complex concerned conduct considerable contrast contributes course daughter death designed distance drama dramatis personae dramatist effect employed establish example exchange experience express eyes fall father figure function Hamlet hand hath highly human imagery implied important individual initial involved kind King language Lear Leontes light lines lord Macbeth meaning Measure merely mind murder nature night once opening passage pattern performance play world plot position presented Prince principal reader reference relation relationship responses revenge Richard role scene seen sense serves Shakespeare's Shakespearian significance situation soliloquy speak speaker spectacle spectator speech stage structure suggest takes theatre audience thou throughout turns understanding universe vengeance watching Whereas whole witnessed