Seeing Shakespeare’s Style

<p><em>Seeing Shakespeare’s Style</em> offers new ways for readers to perceive Shakespeare and by extension literary texts generally. Organized as a series of studies of Shakespeare’s plays and poems poetry and prose it looks at the inner functioning of language and form in works from all phases of this writer’s career. Because the very concept of literary style has dropped out of so many of our conversations about writing we need new ways to understand how words phrases speeches and genres in literature work. Responding to this need this book shows how visual representations of writing can lead to a deeper understanding of language’s textures and effects. Starting with chapters that a beginning reader of Shakespeare can benefit from its second half puts these tools to use in more in-depth examinations of Shakespeare’s language and style. Although focused on Shakespeare’s works and the works of his contemporaries this book provides tools for all readers of literature by defining style as material graphic and shaped by the various media in which all writers work.</p>