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Author
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Date published
2011
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Publisher
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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Subject
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Accession number
83445862
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Class
45/FAH
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ISBN
9780230251878 (hbk.), 0230251870 (hbk.)
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Language
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Physical description
xvii, 192 p. : 1 ill. ; 23 cm.
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Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliography and index. Formatted contents note: Contents: Proving Desdemona Haggard: metaphor and marriage in Othello -- "Martyred signs": sacrifice and metaphor in Titus Andronicus -- Imperfect speech: equivocation and metaphor in Macbeth -- "Base comparison": 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. Uk-SuSCL. Summary, etc: This text explores the fruitful and potentially disorderly nature of metaphorical utterances in Shakespearean drama, with analyses of Othello, Titus Andronicus, King Henry IV Part 1, Macbeth, Hamlet, and The Tempest.