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"Strange things I have in head, that will to hand": echoes of sound and sense in Macbeth. (play by William Shakespeare)

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From: Style
Date: 19970322
Author:Pellikha, Paul

Most of the research on the language used in William Shakespeare's plays have not focused on the sound of the enacted spoken word but on an analysis of the printed word as related to the text. Because sounds of words have an effect on their meanings, and these effects are an inherent part of the way a verse line is constructed, an investigation of these effects would result in a better grasp of the overall construction of verse drama. The enacted spoken textures of language are studied in Shakespeare's Macbeth.'

Shakespeare's plays were conceived not as literary texts but as dramatic texts ...

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