Gibson, Rex (Dr)

Shakespeare's Language CD-ROM - Cambridge School Shakespeare Gibson, Rex (Dr)

Brief Description: Invaluable support for all teachers of Shakespeare in schools, colleges and institutions of higher education. Table of Contents: Introduction; 1; PLAYS: Comedies; Histories; Tragedies; Problem plays; Romances/Late plays; The Sonnets; 2; LANGUAGE TECHNIQUES: Imagery; Personification; Antithesis; Repetition; Alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia; Lists; Verse; Rhyme; Prose; Rhetoric: the Art of Persuasion; Hyperbole; Bombast; Puns; Irony; Oxymoron; Malapropism; Pronouns; Changing language; Inventing words; Everyday language; 3; LANGUAGE INTO DRAMA: Dialogue; Soliloquy; Character; Creating atmosphere; Themes; Stories; Opening scenes; Stage directions; Songs; Insults; Turning reading into drama; Revising: Quarto and Folio.