Speech and Performance in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521036337)

This analysis of Shakespeare's sonnets in relation to his plays asserts that the language of the sonnets is primarily performative rather than descriptive. It discusses the 1609 quarto of sonnets and the Petrarchan discourses in a selection of plays. David Schalkwyk addresses embodiment and silencing, interiority and theatricality, inequalities of power, status, gender and desire in the published poems, on the stage and in the context of the early modern period.

Author: David Schalkwyk
ISBN-10: 052103633X
ISBN-13: 9780521036337
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2007
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d