Seeing Shakespeare’s Style

Douglas Bruster (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

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Routledge
27 May 2024

Poetry; Shakespeare plays; Literary theory; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literary studies: plays & playwrights

Series: Routledge Studies in Early Modern Authorship

Seeing Shakespeare’s Style offers new ways for readers to perceive Shakespeare and, by extension, literary texts generally. Organized as a series of studies of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, poetry, and prose, it looks at the inner functioning of language and form in works from all phases of this writer’s career. Because the very concept of literary style has dropped out of so many of our conversations about writing, we need new ways to understand how words, phrases, speeches, and genres in literature work. Responding to this need, this book shows how visual representations of writing can lead to a deeper understanding of language’s textures and effects. Starting with chapters that a beginning reader of Shakespeare can benefit from, its second half puts these tools to use in more in-depth examinations of Shakespeare’s language and style. Although focused on Shakespeare’s works, and the works of his contemporaries, this book provides tools for all readers of literature by defining style as material, graphic, and shaped by the various media in which all writers work.

By: Douglas Bruster (University of Texas at Austin USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 550g
ISBN: 9781032312545
ISBN 10: 1032312548
Series: Routledge Studies in Early Modern Authorship
Pages: 284
Publication Date: 27 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Preface PART ONE: STARTING OUT WITH STYLE 1. Seeing Shakespeare’s Style 2. How to Read a Shakespeare Page 3. Shakespeare’s Verse 4. Shakespeare’s Prose 5. Shakespeare’s Imagery PART TWO: SEEING STYLE IN PLAY 6. The Contexts of Shakespeare’s Prose 7. Letting Prose Out of the Box: Marlowe, Kyd, and the Verse/Prose System 8. Shakespeare and the Representation Market 9. Seeing the Verse in Q1 Hamlet 10. Quoting Hamlet 11. Shakespeare’s Literary Stage Directions 12. Rhyme in Arden of Faversham 13. Shakespeare’s Additional Passages to the 1602 Spanish Tragedy

Douglas Bruster is Mody C. Boatright Regents Professor of English and American Literature and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. His PhD is from Harvard University. Author, editor, and co-editor of a number of books on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Bruster has taught at Harvard, the University of Chicago, and the University of Paris.