Shakespeare and social dialogue : dramatic language and Elizabethan letters / by Magnusson, Lynne

Table of Contents: “…The pragmatics of repair in King Lear and Much Ado About Nothing.…”
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Reading and rhetoric in Montaigne and Shakespeare / by Mack, Peter, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Shakespeare certainly drew on Montaigne's essay 'On Cannibals' in writing The Tempest and debates have raged amongst scholars about the playwright's obligations to Montaigne in passages from earlier plays including Hamlet, King Lear and Measure for Measure. Peter Mack argues that rather than continuing the undeterminable quarrel about how early in his career Shakespeare came to Montaigne, we should focus on the similar techniques they apply to shared sources. …”
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Music in Shakespearian tragedy / by Sternfeld, Frederick W. 1914-1994

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Music Examples and Facsimiles; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Preface; I Tradition of Vocal and Instrumental Music in Tragedy; II The Willow Song; III Ophelia's Songs; IV Magic Songs; V Adult Songs and Robert Armin; VI Adult Songs from Hamlet to Othello; VII Blank Verse, Prose and Songs in King Lear; VIII Instrumental Music, Part One: Tamburlaine, Richard II, Troilus and Cressida; IX Instrumental Music Part Two: Stringed Versus Wind Instruments.…”
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Reading Shakespeare historically / by Jardine, Lisa

Table of Contents: “…: defamation and Desdemona's case -- 'No offence i' th' world': unlawfull marriage in Hamlet -- Cultural confusion and Shakespeare's learned heroines: 'These are old paradoxes' -- Twins and travesties: gender, dependency and sexual availability in Twelfth night -- Reading and the technology of textual affect: Erasmus's familiar letters and Shakespeare's King Lear -- Alien intelligence: Mercantile exchange and knowledge transactions in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta -- Companionate marriage versus male friendship: Anxiety for the lineal family in Jacobean drama -- Unpicking the tapestry: the scholar of women's history as Penelope among her suitors -- What happens in Hamlet?…”
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Shakespeare and religion / by Shell, Alison

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Shakespeare's God : the role of religion in the tragedies / by Morris, Ivor

Table of Contents: “…Macbeth; 22. Othello; 23. King Lear; 24. Hamlet; CONCLUSION; Appendices:; A. …”
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