Shakespearean Narrative

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University of Delaware Press, 1995 - Drama - 313 pages
In Shakespearean Narrative, Rawdon Wilson explores the variety and purposes of narrative in Shakespeare's plays. He does this by placing Shakespeare's use of narrative within a context of Renaissance narrative theory and practice, often citing analogous strategies from such other writers as Spenser and Cervantes, and exploring in depth the fruitfulness of contemporary narrative theory to an understanding of Shakespeare's practice. Thus Shakespearean Narrative undertakes a double task: it tries to understand Shakespeare's narrative strategies, which has never been done before in any comparable depth, and it also attempts to test the usefulness of contemporary narrative theory.

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Contents

Preface
9
Conventions
48
Voice
77
World
113
Character
148
Boundaries
183
Notes
220
Works Cited
288
Index of Names
307
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