Literature

The Great Feast of Language in Love's Labour's Lost

Paperback

Price:
$53.00/拢45.00
ISBN:
Published:
Mar 8, 2015
1976
Pages:
294
Size:
6 x 9.25 in.

This book contends that in Love’s Labour’s Lost Shakespeare sought to discover the ways in which the imagination uses and abuses language. The author’s critical reading shows that the characters are endowed with a wide variety of rhetorical disguises. Each assumes that his verbal and social point of view is correct, and the limitations and virtues of each viewpoint are explored as the drama unfolds.

In an elegant examination of theme and style, Professor Carroll heightens the reader’s awareness of Shakespeare’s marvellously inventive use of language. The author analyzes the different kinds of style, the characters鈥 attitudes toward language, the play’s theatrical modes, the frequent metamorphoses, and the debates. The term 鈥渄ebate鈥濃攋ustified by Shakespeare’s use of the medieval conflictus鈥攔elates to both theme and structure. The author finds that the conflicting theories about the proper relation of language and imagination are resolved stylistically and thematically only in the final Debate between Spring and Winter, where the playwright reasserts the nature and value of good art.

Originally published in 1976.

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