Speech and Performance in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780521036337
Subjects: Acting techniques; Literary studies: general; Shakespeare studies & criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Shakespeare; Drama : Shakespeare; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: In the Introduction I argued that it is not fruitful to assume that the rhetorical aims of Shakespeare's sonnets in particular, and early modern Petrarchan poetry in general, are primarily epistemological.