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By David Schalkwyk

ISBN-10: 052103633X

ISBN-13: 9780521036337

ISBN-10: 0521811155

ISBN-13: 9780521811156

David Schalkwyk bargains a sustained studying of Shakespeare's sonnets relating to his performs. He argues that the language of the sonnets is basically performative instead of descriptive, and bases this contrast at the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin. In a wide-ranging research of either the 1609 4to of Shakespeare's sonnets and the Petrarchan discourses in a variety of performs, Schalkwyk addresses such matters as embodiment and silencing, interiority and theatricality, inequalities of energy, prestige, gender and hope, either within the released poems and at the degree and within the context of the early glossy interval. In a provocative dialogue of the query of right names and naming occasions within the sonnets and performs, the e-book seeks to reopen the query of the autobiographical nature of Shakespeare's sonnets.

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