Metaphor and Simile in the Minor Elizabethan Drama

von Frederic Ives Carpenter

240 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Frederic Ives Carpenter's "Metaphor and Simile in the Minor Elizabethan Drama" offers a focused and illuminating study of how lesser-known plays of the Elizabethan era use figurative language to create meaning, shape character, and intensify dramatic effect. Rather than treating metaphors and similes as decorative extras, the book shows how these comparisons function as tools of persuasion and interpretation-revealing cultural assumptions, moral attitudes, and artistic strategies within the plays themselves. By tracing recurring patterns and examining how images are built and deployed on stage, Carpenter helps readers see the "minor" drama not as a lesser form, but as a rich field where language carries both emotional force and intellectual design.Metaphor and Simile in the Minor Elizabethan Drama is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895.