Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama explores the fruitful and potentially unruly nature of metaphorical utterances in Shakespearean drama, with analyses of Othello , Titus Andronicus , King Henry IV Part 1 , Macbeth , Hamlet , and The Tempest.

'...provactive...yet another addition to the growing scholarship on the subject of metaphor.' - Jay L. Halio, University of Delaware, Comparative Drama

'...a promising study...splendidly fresh and ingenious.' - Around The Globe

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MARIA FAHEY is Chair of English at Friends Seminary in New York, USA. She has presented her work on Shakespeare and Spenser at conferences of the Modern Language Association, the Shakespeare Association of America, the International Society of the Study of Narrative, the New York Council for the Humanities, and the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

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Illustration Acknowledgments Preface 'Unchaste Signification': Classical, Elizabethan, and Contemporary Theories of Metaphor Proving Desdemona Haggard: Metaphor and Marriage in Othello 'Martyred Signs': Sacrifice and Metaphor in Titus Andronicus Imperfect Speech: Metaphor and Equivocation in Macbeth 'Base Comparisons': Figuring Royalty in King Henry IV Part 1 'Ears of Flesh and Blood': Dead Metaphors and Ghostly Figures in Hamlet 'Strange Fish': Transport and Translation in The Tempest Works Cited Index