Shakespeare and DecorumBarnes & Noble, 1973 - 227 pages This book provides an approach to Shakespeare's plays by way of Renaissance ideas on decorum in verbal and non-verbal behaviour... The book's approach to decorum, however, is not purely linguistic, but is guided by the fact that decorum was an all-embracing ethical and aesthetic doctrine to which verbal and non-verbal behaviour alike were subjected. -- from book jacket. |
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Richard II | 18 |
Hamlet Prince of Denmark | 44 |
Othello The Moor of Venice | 80 |
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action answer Antony and Cleopatra Antony's audience Banquo becomes behaviour Bolingbroke bombast Brabantio Caesar Cassio Castiglione ceremony character Cicero Claudius Cleo Cyprus death decorum deed Desdemona disorder doth dramatic Duncan duty effect Elizabethan eloquence Elyot Emilia Enobarbus equivocation Eros fact father fear Fortinbras friends gentle grace gracious grief Hamlet harmony hath heart heaven hint honest honour husband Iago Iago's II iii italics judgement Julius Caesar kill kind king Lady Macbeth Laertes language lord lovers Macduff Malcolm marriage means mind moral murder nature noble oath Officiis Ophelia Othello passion play Plutarch Polonius Pompey prince proper propriety Puttenham queen question Quintilian rash reason remark Renaissance revenge rhetorical Richard Richard II rites ritual royal scene sense sentence Shake Shakespeare Shakespearian speak speech style tell thee things thou thought Thyreus tongue tragedy trans true truth verbal viii violent virtue wife words