Much Ado About Nothing: Language and Writing
Much Ado About Nothing presents a world of glittering surfaces and exquisite social performances. The language of the play sparkles with a fireworks of wit and dazzling bouts of repartee, most memorably in the merry war of words between the reluctant lovers, Benedick and Beatrice. A closer look at the language of the play, however, reveals it to be laced with violence and charged with the desire to humiliate others. Wit is deployed as a weapon to ridicule one's opponent; much of the humour circulates incessantly around the theme of cuckoldry, a major source of male anxiety in the period. The most drastic use of language is to slander Hero by…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4725-8100-6
- EAN: 9781472581006
- Produktnummer: 24436316
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 829 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Indira Ghose is Professor of English Literature, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
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