Winter’s Tale: Language and Writing

Mario DiGangi is Professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA. He is the author of The Homoerotics of Early Modern Drama (1997) and Sexual Types: Embodiment, Agency, and Dramatic Character from Shakespeare to Shirley (2011) and has edited three plays of Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet.

• Series editor’s preface Preface Introduction - the language of genre What is a winter’s tale? The Winter’s Tale and comedy The Winter’s Tale and tragedy Sources, intertexts, allusions Writing matters 1 Engaging the language of the text(s) The texts of The Winter’s Tale Listening to the language of the opening scene Editorial interventions: Spelling, capitalization, punctuation Editorial additions: Stage directions Fallen language in The Winter’s Tale Writing Matters 2 Language: Style and form Prose, verse and rhyme Analyzing Shakespeare’s blank verse Soliloquies Hermione’s oration Reporting Writing matters 3 Language and history Women’s speech and authority Obedience and resistance Festive pleasures, festive dangers Faith, magic and art: The statue scene Writing matters 4 Writing and language skills Choosing an essay topic I Choosing an essay topic II: Creative approaches Writing the essay Bibliography Index