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Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare: Scenes of Thanking in Shakespeare’s Plays book cover

1st Edition

Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare Scenes of Thanking in Shakespeare’s Plays

By Chahra Beloufa Copyright 2024
224 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare delves deeper than linguistic ornamentation to illuminate the complex dynamics of thanking as a significant speech act in Shakespearean plays. The word “thanks” appears nearly 400 times in 37 Shakespearean plays, calling for a careful investigation of its veracity as a speech act in the 16th-century setting. This volume combines linguistic analysis to explore... Read more

General Introduction

Part I: Thanking in the Elizabethan World                     

Abstract

1.1.      The Early Modern Lexicon of “Thanking”   

1.2.1.   Eucharist and thanksgiving   

1.2.2.   Performing Grace versus Saying “Thanks”  

1.3.      Thanking in Early Modern England: From a Learned Habit to an Institutionalised Social Norm?          

1.3.1.   Festive Thanking       

1.4.      Prayer: Spiritual Economy of Thanking        

1.5.      Benedicam Dominum: Singing Benefits       

1.6.      Thankfulness and Beneficence: A Treatise of Christian beneficence          

1.7.      Charitable Giving and the Thanksgiving of the Poor in Early Modern England           

1.8.      Urban Patronage in England and the Importance of Giving 

1.9.      Gift and Graceful Language  

1.10.    A Gentleman’s “thanks”: Images of Courtesy          

1.11.    Women’s Thanks: “The Churching of Women” or the “Thanksgiving of Women after Childbirth”      

1.12.    Gratitude and Erasmus: On Giving Thanks and Liberality  

1.13.    Kindness and Gratitude         

Conclusion     

Part II:           The Art of Thanking in Shakespeare: Scene Focus         

Abstract         

2.1.      Thanking as a Verbal and Non-Verbal Activity in Theatre  

2.2.      Thanks as a Politeness Sensitive Speech Event

2.3.      Theories of Politeness

2.4.      Politeness in Dramatic Dialogue       

2.5.      Thanking in Pragmatics        

2.6.      Thanking and Not Thanking in Shakespeare

2.7.      Diplomatic Thankings in Shakespeare: A Political Super Strategy to Characters’ Empowerment    

2.8.      “The poorest service is repaid with thanks” The Importance of Giving when thanking is not enough the case of The Merchant of Venice

2.9.      “Do so, and after two days I will discharge thee” (Tem. 1.2.): Characters Waiting for Restitution and Recompense     

2.10.    Excessive Giving of Thanks and Gifts: The Way to Misanthropy in Timon of Athens

2.11.    “We met here both to thank and to remember” (Cor.2.2): The Role of Memory in Giving Thanks in Shakespeare’s Plays     

2.12.    Ceremonial Thanksgiving on the Stage: Prayer and Sacrifice in Pericles and Cymbeline     

Conclusion     

 

General Conclusion   

Appendices

Biography

Chahra Beloufa is Assistant Professor of English language and literature at the Arab Open University, Saudi Arabia. She has a PhD from the University of Paul Valery. She was a researcher at The Institute of Research on the Renaissance, the Classical Age, and the Enlightenment (IRCL) working under the supervision of Prof Nathalie Vienne Guerrin.

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