Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama Unchaste Signification |
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| Author:
| Fahey, Maria Franziska |
| Series title: | Early Modern Literature in History Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-230-25187-8 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2011 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan Limited
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $130.95 |
Book Description:
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This book explores the nature of metaphor in Shakespearean drama. Close readings of Titus Andronicus, Othello, King Henry IV Part 1, Macbeth, and Hamlet illuminate the sacrificial nature of metaphor, its carnivalesque qualities, the relationship between equivocation and metaphor, and how dead metaphors haunt living speech.
This book explores the nature of metaphor in Shakespearean drama. Close readings of Titus Andronicus, Othello, King Henry IV Part 1, Macbeth, and Hamlet illuminate the sacrificial nature of metaphor, its carnivalesque qualities, the relationship between equivocation and metaphor, and how dead metaphors haunt living speech.