LEADER 05279oam 2200685I 450 001 9910790655103321 005 20230617024641.0 010 $a1-136-55936-1 010 $a0-415-85287-0 010 $a1-315-01832-2 010 $a1-136-55929-9 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315018324 035 $a(CKB)2550000001131244 035 $a(EBL)1474504 035 $a(OCoLC)870591157 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001154706 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11631194 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001154706 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11163457 035 $a(PQKB)10507767 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1474504 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1474504 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10786568 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL530953 035 $a(OCoLC)868308504 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB137880 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001131244 100 $a20180331e20051968 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA commentary on Shakespeare's Richard III /$fWolfgang Clemen 210 1$aOxon [England] :$cRoutledge,$d2005. 215 $a1 online resource (270 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge library editions. Shakespeare : critical studies ;$v8 225 0$aRoutledge library editions.$pShakespeare 300 $aFirst published in 1968. 311 $a0-415-35279-7 311 $a1-299-99702-3 327 $aCover; A COMMENTARY ON SHAKESPEARE'S RICHARD III; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFATORY NOTE; INTRODUCTION; Act I; SCENE ONE; General Structure; The Opening Soliloquy; The Pre-Shakespearian Opening Soliloquy; Dialogue-Technique in the Episodes with Clarence and Hastings; Forms of Irony in I, i; The Language of the Dialogue; Richard's Soliloquies; Exposition within the Scene; SCENE TWO; Anne's Soliloquy; The Address as a Means of Irony; Anne's Speech of Imprecation; The Technique of the Dialogue; Richard's Tactics 327 $aThe 'Conversion-Speech'Psychological Development; Richard's Concluding Soliloquy; Conversion-Scenes and Wooing-Scenes in Pre-Shakespearian Drama; SCENE THREE; Structure; The Opening Episodes; Richard's Entry and Behaviour; Richard's Use of Language; Margaret; Margaret and the Stage Action; Simultaneous Staging in Pre-Shakespearian Drama; Linguistic Structure; Richard as the Instrument of Nemesis; Past and Future Dramatically Portrayed; The Curses; Curses in Pre-Shakespearian Drama; Warnings and Prophecies; Margaret's Final Curse; Richard's Soliloquy; The Interlude with the Murderers 327 $aIncitement to Murder in Pre-Shakespearian DramaSCENE FOUR; The 'Self-Contained' Scene in Shakespeare's Plays; The Place of the Scene in the Dramatic Structure; The Composition of the Scene; Clarence's Dream; The Journey to the Underworld; Comparison with Richard's Dream in V, iii; Dramatization of the Dream-Narrative; The Dream: Language and Versification; Dreams in Pre-Shakespearian Drama; Brakenbury's Monologue; The Murder-Scene; The Conversation on Conscience; The Dialogue with Clarence; Murder-Scenes in Pre-Shakespearian Drama; Act II; SCENE ONE; The Reconciliation-Scene 327 $aTechnique of RepetitionIrony and Ambiguity; Richard's Entry; The Derby-Episode as a 'Mirror-Scene'; The King's Final Speech; SCENE TWO; The Opening: The Children; Children in Elizabethan Drama; The Lament; Richard's Entry; Buckingham's Speech; SCENE THREE; The Time-Element in Richard III; II, iii as a Choric Scene; II, iii as a Mirror-Scene; Structure and Themes; Anticipation and Foreboding; The Use of Proverbs; Recurrent Key-Words; SCENE FOUR; Portrayal of Richard; References to Time and Place; Dialogue-Technique; The Messenger; Language and Style of the Passionate Rhetorical Speech; Act III 327 $aSCENE ONEStructure of the Scene; The Arrival in London; The Discussion of Sanctuary; The Discussion about Caesar; Richard and the Figure of Vice; The Talk with York; Forms of Irony; Versification; Final Section; SCENE TWO; The Messenger's Entry; Stanley's Dream; The Catesby-Episode: Ironic Contrast; The Tower as a Scene of Action; SCENE THREE; Treatment of a Minor Episode; The Spectacle and the Text; Turning-Point in the Action; SCENE FOUR; Hastings' Ro?le and Dramatic Irony; Richard's Entry; The Reversal of the Situation; Hastings' Epilogue; Scene-Endings in Richard III; SCENE FIVE 327 $aContrast as a Structural Element 330 $aFirst published in 1968.

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