Alliterative place name lists in early drama
McGavin, John (2008) Alliterative place name lists in early drama. Medieval English Theatre, 30, 45-62.
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Description/Abstract
The alliterative place-name list, which seems to have started out as a bombastic verbal tour de force calculated to show up the moral failings of the character who employs it or who is its target, became a theatrical convention which changed chimerically over a century and a half. It shows that a convention is not a dead motif, but something that can be conveniently adapted to serve whatever end the playwright desires
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0143-3784 (print) |
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| Keywords: | medieval, early modern drama, Scotland, England, rhetoric |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PR English literature |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Humanities > English |
| Item ID: | 69855 |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Dec 2009 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Dec 2011 13:35 |
| Contributors: | McGavin, John (Author) |
| Date: | 1 November 2008 |
| Status: | Published |
| Contact Email Address: | jjm1@soton.ac.uk |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/69855 |
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