Shakespeare, Rhetoric and Cognition

Raphael Lyne (Dr, University of Cambridge)

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Cambridge University Press
01 September 2011

Language: history & general works; Literary studies: general; Shakespeare studies & criticism

Raphael Lyne addresses a crucial Shakespearean question: why do characters in the grip of emotional crises deliver such extraordinarily beautiful and ambitious speeches? How do they manage to be so inventive when they are perplexed? Their dense, complex, articulate speeches at intensely dramatic moments are often seen as psychological - they uncover and investigate inwardness, character and motivation - and as rhetorical - they involve heightened language, deploying recognisable techniques. Focusing on A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, Cymbeline and the Sonnets, Lyne explores both the psychological and rhetorical elements of Shakespeare's language. In the light of cognitive linguistics and cognitive literary theory he shows how Renaissance rhetoric could be considered a kind of cognitive science, an attempt to map out the patterns of thinking. His study reveals how Shakespeare's metaphors and similes work to think, interpret and resolve, and how their struggle to do so results in extraordinary poetry.

By: Raphael Lyne (Dr University of Cambridge)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 580g
ISBN: 9781107007475
ISBN 10: 110700747X
Pages: 276
Publication Date: 01 September 2011
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction: 'pity, like a naked new-born babe'; 2. Metaphor, synecdoche and cognition; 3. The drift towards cognition in rhetorical manuals; 4. A Midsummer Night's Dream; 5. Cymbeline; 6. Othello; 7. The Sonnets; Conclusion.

Raphael Lyne is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Murray Edwards College. He is the author of Ovid's Changing Worlds: English Metamorphoses, 1567–1632 (2001) and Shakespeare's Late Work (2007), as well as the editor (with Subha Mukherji) of Early Modern Tragicomedy (2007).

Reviews for Shakespeare, Rhetoric and Cognition

'Sections of this book work very well as thoughtful close readings of the way Shakespeare uses language to present his characters' thought in action and Lyne's central argument is surely right.' Peter Mack, The Review of English Studies