Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Antipholus of Syracuse as Comic Hero in The Comedy of Errors; 2 The Satire on Learning in Love's Labor's Lost; 3 Richard's Physical Deformities in 3 Henry VI and Richard III; 4 The Sardonic Aaron in Titus Andronicus; 5 Who Tames Whom in The Taming of the Shrew?; 6 The Conventions of Romantic Love in The Two Gentlemen of Verona; 7 The Portentous Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet; 8 Audience Response to Richard in Richard II; 9 The Fairy World of A Midsummer Night's Dream; 10 Shylock's Monomaniacal Style in The Merchant of Venice
11 Commodity and the Bastard in King John12 Falstaff's Hyperbole in the Henry IV Plays; 13 The Banishment of Falstaff in the Henry IV Plays; 14 Shakespeare's Illiterates; 15 The Wit Combat of Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing; 16 The Roman Style of Julius Caesar; 17 Jaques as Satiric Observer in As You Like It; 18 Feste as Corrupter of Words in Twelfth Night; 19 Hamlet as Actor; 20 Sex Nausea in Troilus and Cressida; 21 Parolles the Braggart in All's Well That Ends Well; 22 Iago's and Othello's "Ha's"; 23 Lucio the Calumniator in Measure for Measure; 24 Madness in King Lear
25 The Macbeths's Insomnia26 Roman Values in Antony and Cleopatra; 27 The Cultivation of Excess in Timon of Athens; 28 Coriolanus's Manliness; 29 The Saintly Marina in Pericles; 30 Imogen; 31 Speech Rhythms in The Winter's Tale; 32 Prospero's "Art" in The Tempest; 33
The Tragedy of Cardinal Wolsey in Henry VIII; 34 The Pretty Madness of the Jailer's Daughter in The Two Noble Kinsmen; Conclusion; Index; About the Author
Sommario/riassunto
<span><span>This book presents a detailed consideration of aspects of Shakespeare's writing style in his plays. Each chapter offers a detailed discussion about a single feature of style in a chosen Shakespeare play. </span></span>