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- 题名/责任者:
- Shakespearean character : language in performance / Jelena Marelj.
- 出版发行项:
- London ; New York : The Arden Shakespeare, 2019.
- ISBN:
- 9781350061385
- 载体形态项:
- ix, 250 pages ; 21 cm.
- 个人责任者:
- Marelj, Jelena, author.
- 个人名称主题:
- Shakespeare, William,-1564-1616-Characters.
- 论题主题:
- English language-Early modern, 1500-1700-Rhetoric.
- 中图法分类号:
- I561.073
- 书目附注:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-237) and index.
- 摘要附注:
- "Why do we continue to experience many of Shakespeare's dramatic characters as real people with personal histories, individual personalities, and psychological depth? What is it that makes Falstaff seem to jump off the page, and what gives Hamlet his complexity? Shakespearean Character: Language in Performance examines how the extraordinary lifelikeness of some of Shakespeare's most enigmatic and self-conscious characters is produced through language. Using theories drawn from linguistic pragmatics, this book claims that our impression of characters as real people is an effect arising from characters' pragmatic use of language in combination with the historical and textual meanings that Shakespeare conveys to his audience by dramatic and meta-dramatic means. Challenging the notion of interiority attributed to Shakespeare's characters by many contemporary critics, theatre professionals, and audiences, the book demonstrates that dramatic characters possess anteriority which gives us the impression that they exist outside of-- and prior to-- the play-texts as real people"--
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