How Shakespeare Wrote Scenes of Pain and Distress in a Realistic Way

What is it about?

This article analyses the realism in the broken-down language of certain Shakespearean characters (Hamlet, Othello and King Lear) in situations of overwhelming distress

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Why is it important?

This article combines linguistic and rhetorical analyses to explain how Shakespeare made the language in these scenes sounds so natural and verisimilar, as opposed to the typical Elizabethan artifice, and links it to other posterior writers who also imbued their language with a sense of realistic speech