Reading Shakespeare's dramatic language : a guide - Adamson, Sylvia (London : Arden Shakespeare, 2001)
Heightened language / Ann Thompson -- Style, rhetoric and decorum / Lynne Magnusson -- The grand style / Sylvia Adamson -- Shakespeare's metre scanned / George T. Wright -- Puns and parody / Walter Nash -- Description / William C. Carroll -- Narrative / David Scott Kastan -- Persuasion / Lynette Hunter -- Dialogue / Lynne Magnusson -- Characters in order of appearance / Pamela Mason -- Shakespeare's language in the theatre / Peter Lichtenfels -- Language and the body / Keir Elam -- Varieties and variation / Katie Wales -- Understanding Shakespeare's grammar : studies in small words / Sylvia Adamson -- Shakespeare's new words / Terttu Nevalainen -- Shakespeare's sounds / Roger Lass -- An A-Z of rhetorical terms / Katie Wales.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-315) and index.
Keywords: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Language; English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700.; Taalgebruik; Toneelstukken; Engels