Seeing Shakespeare’s Style offers new ways for readers to perceive Shakespeare and, by extension, literary texts generally. Organized as a series of studies of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, poetry, and prose, it looks at the inner functioning of language and form in works from all phases of this writer’s career. Because the very concept of literary style has dropped out of so many of our conversations about writing, we need new ways to understand how words, phrases, speeches, and genres in literature work. Responding to this need, this book shows how visual representations of writing can lead to a deeper understanding of language’s textures and effects. Starting with chapters that a beginning reader of Shakespeare can benefit from, its second half puts these tools to use in more in-depth examinations of Shakespeare’s language and style. Although focused on Shakespeare’s works, and the works of his contemporaries, this book provides tools for all readers of literature by defining style as material, graphic, and shaped by the various media in which all writers work.
Author(s): Douglas Douglas Bruster
Series: Routledge Studies in Early Modern Authorship
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 296
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Texts and Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I Starting Out With Style
1 Seeing Shakespeare’s Style
2 How to Read a Shakespeare Page
3 Shakespeare’s Verse
Further Reading
4 Shakespeare’s Prose
Further Reading
5 Shakespeare’s Imagery
Note
Further Reading
Part II Seeing Style in Play
6 The Contexts of Shakespeare’s Prose
Prose in English Drama Before Shakespeare
Prose in Context
Shakespeare’s Prose: Tendencies
Prose and Time
Prose and Politics
Notes
7 Letting Prose Out of the Box: Marlowe, Kyd, and the Verse/Prose System
Marlowe and Kyd’s Bilingual Innovation
Kyd and the Boy With the Box
Marlowe’s Prose in Context
Marlowe’s Prose: Resentment, Reckoning, Ritual
Conclusion
Notes
8 Shakespeare and the Representation Market
A Market for Representation
Defining the Representation Market
An Ordinary Market
An Urban Market
Words for Money
Conclusion
Notes
9 Seeing the Verse in Q1 Hamlet
Notes
10 Quoting Hamlet
Defining Quotation
The Circle of Quotation in Hamlet
Quotation and Character
Quotation and the Literary
Conclusion
Notes
11 Shakespeare’s Literary Stage Directions
Literary Stage Directions
Fictional Stage Directions
Stage Directions as Text
Shakespeare Writing
Conclusion
Notes
12 Rhyme in Arden of Faversham
Hearing Rhyme in Arden
Types of Rhyme in Arden
Contexts
Authorship?
Conclusion
Appendix: Rhymes In Arden
Notes
13 Shakespeare’s Additional Passages to the 1602 Spanish Tragedy
References
Index
