Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Rhetoric and insincerity L. C. Knights; 2. Some aspects of style in the Henry VI plays Wolfgang Clemen; 3. Poem and context in Love's Labour's Lost G. K. Hunter; 4. The declaration of love Philip Edwards; 5. Juliet's Nurse: the uses of inconsequentiality Stanley Wells; 6. Language most shows a man…? Language and speaker in Macbeth Nicholas Brooke; 7. Poetic language and dramatic significance in Shakespeare R. A. Foakes; 8. Feliciter audax: Antony and Cleopatra, 1,i,1–24 G. R. Hibbard; 9. 'My name is Marina': the language of recognition Inga-Stina Ewbank; 10. Leontes and the spider: language and speaker in Shakespeare's Last Plays Anne Barton; 11. Shakespeare's 'bombast' E. A. J. Honigmann; 12. The defence of paradox Geoffrey Bullough; 13. 'True, gallant Raleigh': some off-stage conversations in Shakespeare's plays A. C. Sprague; 14. Shakespeare's recollections of Marlowe M. C. Bradbrook; 15. Shakespeare's Dark Lady: a question of identity S. Schoenbaum; 16. Checklist of writings by Kenneth Muir, 1937–1979; Index.

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