Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama explores the fruitful and potentially unruly nature of metaphorical utterances in Shakespearean drama, withย analyses of Othello, Titus Andronicus, King Henry IV Part 1, Macbeth, Hamlet, and The Tempest.
Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama: Unchaste Signification
โ Scribed by Maria Franziska Fahey (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 210
- Series
- Early Modern Literature in History
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
โUnchaste Significationโ: Classical, Elizabethan, and Contemporary Theories of Metaphor....Pages 1-21
Proving Desdemona Haggard: Metaphor and Marriage in Othello....Pages 22-48
โMartyred Signsโ: Sacrifice and Metaphor in Titus Andronicus....Pages 49-73
Imperfect Speech: Equivocation and Metaphor in Macbeth....Pages 74-114
โBase Comparisonsโ: Figuring Royalty in King Henry IV Part 1....Pages 115-138
โEars of Flesh and Bloodโ: Dead Metaphors and Ghostly Figures in Hamlet....Pages 139-158
โStrange Fishโ: Transport and Translation in The Tempest....Pages 159-176
Back Matter....Pages 177-192
โฆ Subjects
British and Irish Literature; Theatre History; Poetry and Poetics; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature
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