Title: Shakespeare and Social Dialogue. Dramatic Language and Elizabethan Letters, Lynne Magnusson : book review
Abstract: Extracted from text ... LYNNE MAGNUSSON. Shakespeare and Social Dialogue. Dramatic Language and
Elizabethan Letters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 221 pp.
Reviewed by RAJENDRA CHETTY
Shakespeare and Social Dialogue creates a new way of reading both literary texts and historical
documents which bridges the gap between the methods of new historicism and linguistic
criticism. The text opens up a refreshing approach to Shakespeare's language and the rhetoric of
Elizabethan letters. Moving beyond claims about the language of individual Shakespearean
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characters, Magnusson develops a rhetoric of social exchange to analyze dialogue, conversation,
sonnets and particularly letters of the period, ..
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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