Speech and Performance in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays

by David Schalkwyk

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David Schalkwyk offers a sustained reading of Shakespeare's sonnets in relation to his plays. He argues that the language of the sonnets is primarily performative rather than descriptive, and bases this distinction on the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin. In a wide-ranging analysis of both the 1609 Quarto of Shakespeare's sonnets and the Petrarchan discourses in a selection of plays, Schalkwyk addresses such issues as embodiment...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:052103633X

ISBN13:9780521036337

Release Date:April 2007

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:276 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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