Reviews: "Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama: Unchaste Signification"

Maria Franziska Fahey's book explores "the transformative, fruitful, and potentially unruly nature of metaphorical utterances as revealed in Shakespearean drama," focusing on the way classical and Elizabethan rhetoricians consider the "tension inherent in metaphor between the nee...

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Published in:Comparative drama 2011, Vol.45 (4), p.448-451
Main Author: Halio, Jay L
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Elizabethan period
Fahey, Maria Franziska
Metaphor
Rhetoric
Shakespearean plays
Textual criticism
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Summary:Maria Franziska Fahey's book explores "the transformative, fruitful, and potentially unruly nature of metaphorical utterances as revealed in Shakespearean drama," focusing on the way classical and Elizabethan rhetoricians consider the "tension inherent in metaphor between the need for difference, distance, and interchange and the need for likeness, proximity, and containment" (Early Modern Literature in History: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
ISSN:0010-4078
1936-1637