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Shakespeare and Social Dialogue develops a systematic analysis of the rhetoric of social exchange in early modern England. Magnusson brings together writings, particularly letters, from the Elizabethan period which are normally read as historical documents and compares them with Shakespeare's play texts and sonnets. Using techniques from discourse analysis and linguistic pragmatics, especially 'politeness theory', she argues that Shakespeare's language is rooted in the everyday language of Eliza

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Author

Lynne Magnusson

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780511117336

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Drama, History

Updated

2026-03-25