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Power and passion in Shakespeare's pronouns : interrogating 'you' and 'thou'

Title: Power and passion in Shakespeare's pronouns : interrogating 'you' and 'thou' / Penelope Freedman.
Author: Freedman, Penelope.
Publication: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007.

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Description

280 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"In revealing patterns of you/thou use in Shakespeare's plays, this study highlights striking and significant shifts from one to the other. Penelope Freedman demonstrates that understanding of the implications of you/thou use in early modern English has been bedevilled by overconcern with issues of power and status, and her careful research, analysing all the plays, reveals how a fuller understanding of Shakespeare's usage can provide a key to unlock puzzles of motive and character, and a glass to clarify relationships and emotions. The work focuses particularly on dialogue between men and women, and sheds new light on male and female language use. The scholarship presented in this volume is augmented with tables and a glossary of linguistic terms."--Jacket.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-272) and indexes.

Contents

The merry wives of Windsor : a paradigm of usage -- Earlier comedies : Two gentlemen of Verona to The merchant of Venice -- Later comedies and romances : Much ado about nothing to Two noble kinsmen -- The tragedies -- The histories -- Conclusions : from page to stage -- Appendix : A note on the sonnets -- Glossary of linguistic terms.

ISBN

0754658309
9780754658306

LCCN

2006020594

OCLC

ocm70167722
70167722
SCSB-14645085

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library