The Great Feast of Language in Love's Labour's Lost

by William C Carroll and William C. Carroll

Book Overview

This book contends that in Love's Labour's Lost Shakespeare sought to discover the ways in which the imagination uses and abuses language. The author's critical reading shows that the characters are endowed with a wide variety of rhetorical disguises. Each assumes that his verbal and social point of view is correct, and the limitations and virtues of each viewpoint are explored as the drama unfolds.

In an elegant examination of theme...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691616884
• ISBN13: 9780691616889
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"