{"product_id":"shakespeare-and-social-dialogue-dramatic-language-and-elizabethan-letters-paperback-9780521030557","title":"Shakespeare and Social Dialogue; Dramatic Language and Elizabethan Letters (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521030557","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eShakespeare and Social Dialogue\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDramatic Language and Elizabethan Letters\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn alternative approach to Shakespeare's language and the rhetoric of Elizabethan letters.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLynne Magnusson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521030557, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 2 November 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.366 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...splendid book that offers both a compelling method of close reading and a number of careful, discriminating analyses of Renaissance English texts.\"    Joutnal of English and Germanic Philology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eShakespeare and Social Dialogue deals with Shakespeare's language and the rhetoric of Elizabethan letters. Moving beyond claims about the language of individual Shakespearean characters, Magnusson analyses dialogue, conversation, sonnets and particularly letters of the period, which are normally read as historical documents, as the verbal negotiation of specific social and power relations. Thus, the rhetoric of service or friendship is explored in texts as diverse as Sidney family letters, Shakespearean sonnets and Burghley's state letters. The book draws on ideas from discourse analysis and linguistic pragmatics, especially 'politeness theory', relating these to key ideas in epistolary handbooks of the period, including those by Erasmus and Angel Day and demonstrates that Shakespeare's language is rooted in the everyday language of Elizabethan culture. Magnusson creates a way of reading both literary texts and historical documents which bridges the gap between the methods of new historicism and linguistic criticism.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Rhetoric of Politeness: 1. Politeness and dramatic character in Henry VIII\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'Power to hurt': language and service in Sidney household letters and Shakespeare's sonnets\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Eloquent Relations in Letters: 3. Scripting social relations in Erasmus and Day\u003cbr\u003e 4. Reading courtly and administrative letters\u003cbr\u003e 5. Linguistic stratification, merchant discourse, and social change\u003cbr\u003e Part III. A Prosaics of Conversation: 6. The pragmatics of repair in King Lear and Much Ado About Nothing\u003cbr\u003e 7. 'Voice potential': language and symbolic capital in Othello\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Shakespeare studies \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Shakespeare studies \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Shakespeare%20studies%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDSGS%5D%22\"\u003eDSGS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006216392984,"sku":"9780521030557","price":39.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521030557i_98bf10d8-802a-4404-9f22-c6c2b983c2ad.jpg?v=1694964911","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/shakespeare-and-social-dialogue-dramatic-language-and-elizabethan-letters-paperback-9780521030557","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}