This article explores the change in dynamics between matter and style in Shakespeare’s way of depicting distress on the early modern stage. During his early years as a dramatist, Shakespeare wrote plays filled with violence and death, but language did not lose its composure at the sight of blood and destruction; it kept on marching to the beat of the iambic drum. As his career progressed, however, the language of characters undergoing an overwhelming experience appears to become more permeable to their emotions, and in many cases sentiment takes over and interferes with the character’s ability to speak properly. That is, Shakespeare progressively imbued his depictions of distress with a degree of linguistic iconicity previously unheard of i...
Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion an...
This research explores the elements of tragedy in selected Shakespearean dramas. The Greek philosoph...
King Lear cannot help filling the audience with a sense of helplessness and misery. Such a sense is ...
Speech acts described as forms of “complaint”—lamentations, accusations, supplications—permeate earl...
Equivocation is a condition of language that runs riot in Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear. W...
This essay examines ambiguities in Hamlet and argues that wordplay represents the nature of Hamlet's...
Shakespeare’s Hamlet is famous for its attempt to adumbrate an inward passion that transcends outwar...
The research was conducted to analyze speech act of emotional state expressed by the characters in H...
A master of storytelling, William Shakespeare knew exactly how to tug at the heartstrings of his aud...
Acknowledging the limits of theatre activism in the face of escalating displays of power and social ...
A master of storytelling, William Shakespeare knew exactly how to tug at the heartstrings of his aud...
Tragedy is a category of play. But was it, in Shakespeare’s time, a method of acting too? This artic...
This thesis will consider portrayals of lamentation and weeping in The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, a...
Early Modern England developed an unprecedented fascination with melancholy as the ailment effective...
This article explores the use of comic relief in Shakespeare's tragedies. The author argues that Sha...
Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion an...
This research explores the elements of tragedy in selected Shakespearean dramas. The Greek philosoph...
King Lear cannot help filling the audience with a sense of helplessness and misery. Such a sense is ...
Speech acts described as forms of “complaint”—lamentations, accusations, supplications—permeate earl...
Equivocation is a condition of language that runs riot in Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear. W...
This essay examines ambiguities in Hamlet and argues that wordplay represents the nature of Hamlet's...
Shakespeare’s Hamlet is famous for its attempt to adumbrate an inward passion that transcends outwar...
The research was conducted to analyze speech act of emotional state expressed by the characters in H...
A master of storytelling, William Shakespeare knew exactly how to tug at the heartstrings of his aud...
Acknowledging the limits of theatre activism in the face of escalating displays of power and social ...
A master of storytelling, William Shakespeare knew exactly how to tug at the heartstrings of his aud...
Tragedy is a category of play. But was it, in Shakespeare’s time, a method of acting too? This artic...
This thesis will consider portrayals of lamentation and weeping in The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, a...
Early Modern England developed an unprecedented fascination with melancholy as the ailment effective...
This article explores the use of comic relief in Shakespeare's tragedies. The author argues that Sha...
Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion an...
This research explores the elements of tragedy in selected Shakespearean dramas. The Greek philosoph...
King Lear cannot help filling the audience with a sense of helplessness and misery. Such a sense is ...