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Harrying: Skills of Offense in Shakespeare's Henriad

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Harrying: Skills of Offense in Shakespeare's Henriad - Berger, Harry
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Harrying considers Richard III and the four plays of Shakespeare's Henriad--Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, and Henry V. Berger combines close reading with cultural analysis to show how the language characters speak always says more than the speakers mean to say. Shakespeare's speakers try to say one thing. Their language says other things that often question the speakers' motives or intentions. Harrying explores the effect of this linguistic mischief on the representation of all the Henriad's major figures. ...

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Harrying: Skills of Offense in Shakespeare's Henriad 2015, Fordham University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780823256631

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Harrying: Skills of Offense in Shakespeare's Henriad 2015, Fordham University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780823256624

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