The Drama of Speech Acts: Shakespeare's Lancastrian TetralogyThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter Two 1 Henry IV | 52 |
Chapter Three 2 Henry IV | 89 |
Chapter Four Henry V | 116 |
Chapter Five Method | 151 |
Chapter Six Conclusion | 167 |
A Selective Bibliography | 190 |
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Austin Babel story Babel theme battle of Agincourt bid for control Bolingbroke Cambridge chapters characteristic characters conception of language concern course Dauphin deafness direction of address discussed example explicit fact Falstaff fourth wall French Gaunt genre of drama Gower Granville-Barker guage H4 plays Hal's hear Henry Henry IV Henry's Hotspur idiolect illocutionary act illocutionary force interaction interchange interlocutor involved J. O. Urmson justling kind of speech king Lancastrian linguistic world London lord manifest metadramatic metaphor Mowbray narrative nondramatic nonverbal action performed perlocutionary act play's audience problem promise question realm reference reply Richard Richard II Richard's speech scene seems sense significance soliloquy speak speaker speech action speech acts stage suggests talk tetralogy theatrical thee Things with Words thou tion tongues topic unity University Press utterance variety of languages verbal action verbal objects William Shakespeare