1st Edition

Shakespeare's Dramatic Structures

By Anthony Brennan Copyright 1986
174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1986. The focus of this book is the dramatic strategies of scenic repetition and character separation. The author traces the way in which Shakesperare often presents recurring gestures, dramatic interactions, and complex scenic structures at widely separated intervals in a play - thereby providing an internal system of cross-reference for an audience. He also examines the way... Read more
Introduction; Part 1; Chapter 1 ‘Look where it comes again’; Chapter 2 ‘Thrice three times the value of this bond’; Chapter 3 The journey from ‘wherefore art thou Romeo?’ to ‘Where is my Romeo?’; Chapter 4 ‘What's yet behind, that's meet you all should know’; Part 2; Chapter 5 ‘But when they seldom come, they wished-for come’; Chapter 6 How to shoot an arrow o'er the house to hurt your brother; Chapter 7 ‘And what's he then that says I play the villain’;

Biography

Anthony Brennan