Seeing Shakespeares Style

Seeing Shakespeare's Style offers new ways for readers to perceive Shakespeare and, by extension, literary texts generally.

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Douglas Bruster is Mody C. Boatright Regents Professor of English and American Literature and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. His PhD is from Harvard University. Author, editor, and co-editor of a number of books on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Bruster has taught at Harvard, the University of Chicago, and the University of Paris.

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Seeing Shakespeare's Style offers new ways for readers to perceive Shakespeare and, by extension, literary texts generally.

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Preface

PART ONE: STARTING OUT WITH STYLE

1. Seeing Shakespeare's Style

2. How to Read a Shakespeare Page

3. Shakespeare's Verse

4. Shakespeare's Prose

5. Shakespeare's Imagery

PART TWO: SEEING STYLE IN PLAY

6. The Contexts of Shakespeare's Prose

7. Letting Prose Out of the Box: Marlowe, Kyd, and the Verse/Prose System

8. Shakespeare and the Representation Market

9. Seeing the Verse in Q1 Hamlet

10. Quoting Hamlet

11. Shakespeare's Literary Stage Directions

12. Rhyme in Arden of Faversham

13. Shakespeare's Additional Passages to the 1602 Spanish Tragedy