Shakespeare's Storytellers

The noted British literary scholar turns her attention to the rarely examined topic of narrative in the plays and offers some new insight into the playwright's craft. Shakespeare makes narrative theatrical and it is as prominent in his craft and language as characterization and imagery. Hardy analyzes key structures, including reflexive narrative and the narrative compoundings used to begin and end plays. She also examines narrative subtleties in the works of Plutarch, Holinshed, Brooke, and Sidney that Shakespeare read. Finally, she explores common narrative techniques - memory, forecast, and gendered story - and extensively analyzes these issues in three plays: Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth.

Literature & Fiction

Barbara Hardy

History & Criticism

Peter Owen Ltd

London Lovers: A Novel

<p>"Hardy's light touch and her effortless rendering of characters who naturally weave literature into their romances make her novel a bright, intelligent read." Publishers Weekly "Above and beyon</p>

London Lovers

Biographies & Memoirs

Rituals and feeling in the novels of George Eliot: The W. D. Thomas memorial lecture delivered at the University College of Swansea on February 6, 1973,

University College of Swansea

Middlemarch: Critical Approaches to the Novel

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