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Tables of Contents for Reading Shakespeare's Dramatic Language
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of contributors
vii
List of abbreviations for works by Shakespeare
ix
Preface
xi
PART I: THE LANGUAGE OF SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS
1
188
Introduction
3
2
Heightened language
5
12
Ann Thompson
Style, rhetoric and decorum
17
14
Lynne Magnusson
The grand style
31
20
Sylvia Adamson
Shakespeare's metre scanned
51
20
George T. Wright
Puns and parody
71
18
Walter Nash
Description
89
13
William C. Carroll
Narrative
102
11
David Scott Kastan
Persuasion
113
17
Lynette Hunter
Dialogue
130
14
Lynne Magnusson
Characters in order of appearance
144
14
Pamela Mason
Shakespeare's language in the theatre
158
15
Peter Lichtenfels
Language and the body
173
16
Keir Elam
PART II: READING SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLISH
189
80
Introduction
191
1
Varieties and variation
192
18
Katie Wales
`Standard' English
192
2
Regional dialect
194
2
Social variation: sociolects
196
4
English and nationhood
200
2
English and Latin
202
1
Occupational dialects
203
1
Register and situational variation
204
2
Thou and you: social, emotional and rhetorical variation
206
1
Individual variation or idiolects
207
3
Understanding Shakespeare's grammar: studies in small words
210
46
Sylvia Adamson
Introduction: choice and change
210
2
And or an (meaning `if')
212
2
His or it (meaning `its')
214
4
May
218
5
Shall
223
3
Thou
226
6
That, this, thus, there
232
7
Shakespeare's new wordsTerttu Nevalainen
237
Compounding
239
2
Conversion
241
3
Affixation
244
12
Shakespeare's sounds
256
13
Roger Lass
Prologue: `difference' and variability
256
2
Syllable-count and stress
258
4
Rhyme and betrayal
262
3
Some further details
265
2
Epilogue
267
2
PART III: RESOURCES FOR READERS
269
47
An A-Z of rhetorical terms
271
31
Katie Wales
A guide to further reading
302
14
Index
316