Table of Contents:
  • Shakespeare's dramatic language
  • No art at all : language in Hamlet
  • Iago's if : conditional and subjunctive in Othello
  • Give me the map there! Command, question, and assertion in King Lear
  • What should be in that Caesar? Proper names in Julius Caesar
  • High events as these : the language of hyperbole in Antony and Cleopatra
  • All's in anger : the language of contention in Coriolanus
  • Appendix : Imagery in Richard II and in 1 Henry IV.