"Good Fooling: Modality and Linguistic Action in Shakespeare's Comedies"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc61/
Author:
	Tyson, Rikita Lenise.
Type:
	Dissertation
Year:
	2013
Publication Information:
	Harvard, 2013, not paginated. <p>Dissertation Abstracts International</p>
Annotation:
	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.
Language:
	English
Keywords:
	rhetoric; verb; agency; subjectivity; debate; word play
Tags:
	Comedies, Language, Linguistics, Philology, Rhetoric
WSB Update:
	Winter 2012
WSB Record Number:
	bbbc61