Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama: Unchaste Signification

by Maria Franziska Fahey

Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama explores the fruitful and potentially disorderly nature of metaphorical utterances in Shakespearean drama. Borrowing its title from Henry Peacham's 1593 warning that 'there be no uncleane or unchast e] signification contained in the Metaphore, ' it explores the worry expressed in Elizabethan rhetoric books that a metaphor might beget illegitimate meanings. Shakespeare's plays demonstrate that a metaphor can indeed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230251870
• ISBN13: 9780230251878
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.6"