Exploring the Language of Drama: From Text to ContextJonathan Culpeper, Mick Short, Peter Verdonk Exploring the Language of Drama introduces students to the stylistic analysis of drama. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the contributors use techniques of language analysis, particularly from discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics and pragmatics, to explore the language of plays. The contributors demonstrate the validity of analysing the text of a play, as opposed to focusing on performance. Divided into four broad, yet interconnecting groups, the chapters:
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... Shakespeare to those of Arthur Miller and Tom Stoppard. The contributors demonstrate the validity of analysing the text of a play, as opposed to focusing on performance. Divided into four broad yet inter-connecting groups, the chapters ...
... Shakespeare to those of Arthur Miller and Tom Stoppard. The contributors demonstrate the validity of analysing the text of a play, as opposed to focusing on performance. Divided into four broad yet inter-connecting groups, the chapters ...
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... Shakespeare make it so effective? Shakespeare's play is largely written in verse, of course, and so one approach will be to examine the poetry. If we take our stylistics 'tool kit' for the analysis of poetry, how far would it take us in ...
... Shakespeare make it so effective? Shakespeare's play is largely written in verse, of course, and so one approach will be to examine the poetry. If we take our stylistics 'tool kit' for the analysis of poetry, how far would it take us in ...
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... Shakespeare and some other Elizabethan playwrights were reprieved by the fact that their plays were often written in verse. In fact, within the literary-critical movements of New Criticism in the USA and Practical Criticism in Britain ...
... Shakespeare and some other Elizabethan playwrights were reprieved by the fact that their plays were often written in verse. In fact, within the literary-critical movements of New Criticism in the USA and Practical Criticism in Britain ...
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... Shakespearean critic Stanley Wells (1970:ix) that 'the reading of a play is a necessarily incomplete experience'. Writers and directors have also taken this position. Brecht tells us that 'Proper plays can only be understood when ...
... Shakespearean critic Stanley Wells (1970:ix) that 'the reading of a play is a necessarily incomplete experience'. Writers and directors have also taken this position. Brecht tells us that 'Proper plays can only be understood when ...
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... Shakespeare's history play, King John, directed by Buzz Goodbody at Stratford-upon-Avon, where the actors pretended to be puppets throughout. This production was an interesting and enjoyable theatrical experience, but was unfaithful to ...
... Shakespeare's history play, King John, directed by Buzz Goodbody at Stratford-upon-Avon, where the actors pretended to be puppets throughout. This production was an interesting and enjoyable theatrical experience, but was unfaithful to ...
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