Shakespeare and Social Dialogue deals with Shakespeare's language
and the rhetoric of Elizabethan letters. Moving beyond claims about
the language of individual Shakespearean characters, Magnusson
analyses dialogue, conversation, sonnets and particularly letters
of the period, which are normally read as historical documents, as
the verbal negotiation of specific social and power relations.
Thus, the rhetoric of service or friendship is explored in texts as
diverse as Sidney family letters, Shakespearean sonnets and
Burghley's state letters. The book draws on ideas from discourse
analysis and linguistic pragmatics, especially 'politeness theory',
relating these to key ideas in epistolary handbooks of the period,
including those by Erasmus and Angel Day and demonstrates that
Shakespeare's language is rooted in the everyday language of
Elizabethan culture. Magnusson creates a way of reading both
literary texts and historical documents which bridges the gap
between the methods of new historicism and linguistic criticism.
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