Alliterative place name lists in early drama
Alliterative place name lists in early drama
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
medieval, early modern drama, Scotland, England, rhetoric
45-62
McGavin, John
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1 November 2008
McGavin, John
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McGavin, John
(2008)
Alliterative place name lists in early drama.
Medieval English Theatre, 30, .
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
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Published date: 1 November 2008
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medieval, early modern drama, Scotland, England, rhetoric
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