{"product_id":"shakespeares-style-9781611477641","title":"Shakespeare's Style","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShakespeare’s Style presents a detailed consideration of aspects of Shakespeare’s writing style in his plays.  Each chapter offers a detailed discussion about a single feature of style in a chosen Shakespeare play.  Topics examine include: a discussion of a key image or images, both verbal and nonverbal; consideration of the way a character is put together; reflection of the changing audience response to a character; and audience response to an account of the speech rhythms of a single play.  This book will be of interest to audiences who see Shakespeare’s plays, readers of the printed page, and students aiding them in concentrating on the significant ways that Shakespeare expresses himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReferring to each of Shakespeare’s plays in at least one chapter, this volume comprises 34 brief but thoughtful essays.  Charney conceives of ‘style’ broadly as he discusses more than the formal aspects of Shakespeare’s work.  The topics range from the lack of figurative language in Julius Caesar and Iago’s ‘Ha!’ (which Othello picks up as he accepts Iago’s accusations of Desdemona) to the insomnia of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth and the ‘harsh cruelty’ of Falstaff’s banishment in 2 Henry IV.  The author even includes an appreciative chapter on the jailer’s daughter in The Two Noble Kinsmen.  An accomplished scholar conversant with the literature, Charney provides close readings that pick up characteristics of individual plays that readers might miss: for example, he notes that the speech rhythms of The Winter’s Tale are quite irregular, the lines often deviating from the conventional blank verse.   [T]his book will interest scholars as well as a general audience.  It will remind readers that Charney's excellent How to Read Shakespeare is still the best book to introduce students to Shakespeare. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents   Introduction       1.  Antipholus of Syracuse as Comic Hero in The Comedy of Errors       2.  The Satire on Learning in Love’s Labor’s Lost   3.  Richard’s Physical Deformities in 3 Henry VI and Richard III      4.  The Sardonic Aaron in Titus Andronicus       5.  Who Tames Whom in The Taming of the Shrew?       6.  The Conventions of Romantic Love in The Two Gentlemen of Verona       7.  The Portentous Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet       8.  Audience Response to Richard in Richard II       9.  The Fairy World of A Midsummer Night’s Dream       10. Shylock’s Monomaniacal Style in The Merchant of Venice      11. Commodity and the Bastard in King John       12. Falstaff’s Hyperbole in the Henry IV Plays       13. The Banishment of Falstaff in the Henry IV Plays       14. Shakespeare’s Illiterates      15. The Wit Combat of Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing       16. The Roman Style of Julius Caesar       17. Jaques as Satiric Observer in As You Like It       18. Feste as Corrupter of Words in Twelfth Night       19. Hamlet as Actor       20. Sex Nausea in Troilus and Cressida       21. Parolles the Braggart in All’s Well That Ends Well       22. Iago’s and Othello’s “Ha’s”   23. Lucio the Calumniator in Measure for Measure       24. Madness in King Lear      25. The Macbeths’s Insomnia       26. Roman Values in Antony and Cleopatra       27. The Cultivation of Excess in Timon of Athens       28. Coriolanus’s Manliness   29. The Saintly Marina in Pericles       30. Imogen: Romance Heroine of Cymbeline       31. Speech Rhythms in The Winter’s Tale       32. Prospero’s “Art” in The Tempest       33. The Tragedy of Cardinal Wolsey in Henry VIII       34. The Pretty Madness of the Jailer’s Daughter in The Two Noble Kinsmen      Conclusion","brand":"Fairleigh Dickinson University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041692156247,"sku":"9781611477641","price":69.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781611477641.jpg?v=1750951325","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shakespeares-style-9781611477641","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}