Power and Passion in Shakespeare's Pronouns
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absent
Absent Addressee
addressee
archaisms
Author_Penelope Freedman
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Category=DSBD
Category=DSG
character motivation studies
conscious
dramatic dialogue analysis
early modern English
Edward III
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=1
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eq_non-fiction
gendered language
Gloucester
Hold
Intimate Pronoun
KING EDWARD
KING HENRY
Kinsmen
LADY ANNE
Lady Gray
linguistic pragmatics
merry
Merry Wives
mistress
Mistress Page
Mistress Quickly
noble
Noble Kinsmen
Personae
Pronoun Choices
Pronoun Exchanges
Pronoun Patterns
Quarto Text
quickly
Richard III
Shakespearean pronoun usage patterns
sociolinguistics
Thou Art
Titus Andronicus
Wilt Thou
wives
Young Man
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- ISBN 9780754658306
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 Apr 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In revealing patterns of you/thou use in Shakespeare's plays, this study highlights striking and significant shifts from one to the other. Penelope Freedman demonstrates that understanding of the implications of you/thou use in early modern English has been bedevilled by overconcern with issues of power and status, and her careful research, analysing all the plays, reveals how a fuller understanding of Shakespeare's usage can provide a key to unlock puzzles of motive and character, and a glass to clarify relationships and emotions. The work focuses particularly on dialogue between men and women, and sheds new light on male and female language use. The scholarship presented in this volume is augmented with tables and a glossary of linguistic terms.
Penelope Freedman taught Literary Linguistics and Stylistics at the University of Kent until 1992, combining her academic work with acting and directing at the Gulbenkian Theatre in Canterbury. She now lives and works in Stratford-upon-Avon.
