'Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama' explores the fruitful and potentially unruly nature of metaphorical utterances in Shakespearean drama, with analyses of 'Othello', 'Titus Andronicus', 'King Henry IV Part 1', 'Macbeth', 'Hamlet', and 'The Tempest.' MARIA FAHEY is Chair of English at Friends Seminary in New York, USA. She has presented her work on Shakespeare and Spenser at conferences of the ModernLanguage Association, the Shakespeare Association of America, the International Society of the Study of Narrative, the New York Council for the Humanities,and the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. INDICE: Illustration - Acknowledgments - Preface - 'Unchaste Signification': Classical, Elizabethan, and Contemporary Theories of Metaphor - Proving Desdemona Haggard: Metaphor and Marriage in 'Othello - ''Martyred Signs': Sacrifice and Metaphor in 'Titus Andronicus - 'Imperfect Speech: Metaphor and Equivocation in 'Macbeth - ''Base Comparisons': Figuring Royalty in 'King Henry IV Part 1 - ''Ears of Flesh and Blood': Dead Metaphors and Ghostly Figures in 'Hamlet - ''Strange Fish': Transport and Translation in 'The Tempest - 'Works Cited- Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-25187-8
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 23/08/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés