Title: The making of Shakespeare's dramatic poetry /
Authors: Hibbard, G. R. 1915-
Publisher: University of Toronto Press,
Year: 1981
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, Literary style.; English language Style
Contents: Tradition and the Shakespearean talent -- Continuity, contrarieties, and self-criticism -- Words, action, and Titus Andronicus -- Formalization in the early history plays -- Character and individual idiom -- Parody and linguistic exuberance in the early comedies -- Making a virtue of virtuosity: Love's Labour's Lost and Richard II -- 'New, pathetique tragedie': Romeo and Juliet -- From dialectical rhetoric to metaphorical thinking: King John -- Interplay of verse and prose: A midsummer night's dream and The merchant of Venice -- 'Unpoetical' poetry and figurative prose: Henry IV.