Table of Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xiv
Introduction 1 (18)
Part 1 Words
1 Why all of these metaphors? 19 (20)
2 Why use two words when one might do? 39 (19)
3 Why the repetition? 58 (14)
4 Why the high style? 72 (20)
5 Why rhyme? 92 (14)
6 What difference does prose make? 106(28)
7 Why all of these puns? 134(37)
Part 2 Characters
8 What are these speaking things? 171(19)
9 Where is a character? 190(31)
10 Is direct self-expression possible? The 221(27)
soliloquy
11 Did they do it? Sex and heroines 248(21)
12 In search of Shakespeare's characters: 269(26)
Iago and Hamlet
Suggestions for further reading 291
Indexes
Characters 295(2)
Plays 297(2)
General 299