The Great Feast of Language in Love's Labour's Lost

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Great Feast of Language in Love's Labour's Lost
Authors and Contributors      By (author) William C. Carroll
SeriesPrinceton Legacy Library
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:294
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 152
ISBN/Barcode 9780691644080
ClassificationsDewey:822.33
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 19 April 2016
Publication Country United States

Description

This book contends that in Love's Labour's Lost Shakespeare sought to discover the ways in which the imagination uses and abuses language. The author's critical reading shows that the characters are endowed with a wide variety of rhetorical disguises. Each assumes that his verbal and social point of view is correct, and the limitations and virtues