Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare's World

Introduction: 'No abuse?'
Chapter 1: The spectacular rhetoric of insult
Chapter 2. The 'merry war': insult as a love game
Chapter 3: 'Quarrelling by the book': insult and duelling codes
Chapter 4: Insults as actionable words
Chapter 5: Insult and the taming of the tongue
Chapter 6: The trauma of insult
Chapter 7: Insult beyond words
Epilogue: Shakespeare's theatre of insult
Bibliography of works cited
Detailed outline
Index

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• História da Europa
• Estudos literários: c 1500 a c 1800
• História social e cultural
• Início da história moderna: c 1450/1500 a c 1700
• Estudos e crítica shakespeareana

early modern world; cultural history; literary criticism; Much Ado about Nothing; Love's Labour's Lost; and A Midsummer Night's Dream; insult and duelling codes; Romeo and Juliet; As You Like It; Twelfth Night; Othello; Measure for Measure.