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SP  - not paginated
ID  - bbbc61
T1  - "Good Fooling: Modality and Linguistic Action in Shakespeare's Comedies"
AU  - Tyson, Rikita Lenise
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2026
KW  - rhetoric
KW  - verb
KW  - agency
KW  - subjectivity
KW  - debate
KW  - word play
LA  - English
AB  - Analyzes the role of rhetoric and modal verbs in Shakespeare's comedies to argue that his use of language provides agency and subjectivity to his comic characters, instead of representing them solely as types. Argues that the characters' use of debate, word play, and rhetorical devices actively creates the comic world.
ER  -