Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama Unchaste Signification [Hardcover]

Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama explores the fruitful and potentially unruly nature of metaphorical utterances in Shakespearean drama, with?analyses of Othello , Titus Andronicus , King Henry IV Part 1 , Macbeth , Hamlet , and The Tempest.Illustration Acknowledgments Preface 'Unchaste Signification': Classical, Elizabethan, and Contemporary Theories of Metaphor Proving Desdemona Haggard: Metaphor and Marriage in Othello 'Martyred Signs': Sacrifice and Metaphor in Titus Andronicus Imperfect Speech: Metaphor and Equivocation in Macbeth 'Base Comparisons': Figuring Royalty in King Henry IV Part 1 'Ears of Flesh and Blood': Dead Metaphors and Ghostly Figures in Hamlet 'Strange Fish': Transport and Translation in The Tempest Works Cited Index

'...provactive...yet another addition to the growing scholarship on the subject of metaphor.' - Jay L. Halio, University of Delaware, Comparative Drama

'...a promising study...splendidly fresh and ingenious.' - Around The Globe

MARIA FAHEY is Chair of English at Friends Seminary in New York, USA. She has presented her work on Shakespeare and Spenser at conferences of the Modern Language Association, the Shakespeare Association of America, the International Society of the Study of Narrative, the New York Council for the Humanities, and the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

Maria Faheys provocative study of key metaphoric systems in six Shakespeare plays brilliantly demonstrates the embeddedness of metaphor in cultural, pragmatic, and historical circuits of meaning while suggesting how metaphors in performance can themselves motivate these very circuits.  Grounded in a deep understanding of the theory of metaphor from Aristotle on, Faheys exciting interpretations invert assumptions about what is literal and what figurative, what is native and what transported, by showing how words connected to a tissue of social discourses and performances become awarel,