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- Title
Shakespeare's Snuff-Play: Suffocating Figures in Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2.
- Authors
Wells, Jane
- Abstract
The prevalent linguistic patterns in Shakespeare's Henry IV, parts 1 and 2, present a rhetoric of suffocation which combines frequent tropes of strangulation and moments where meaning gets progressively closed off. This rhetoric coincides with a series of episodes throughout both plays in which characters find their speech limited or throttled in various ways. These habits of speech and action form a kind of wordplay, distinctive to the Henry IV plays, that I have called snuff-play. The rhetorical and physical maneuvers involved in snuff-play dramatize Shakespeare's concept of the history play in general and the particular historical figures these plays represent.
- Subjects
HENRY IV (Play : Shakespeare); SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; ASPHYXIA; CONSULTANTS; PEACE
- Publication
Studies in Philology, 2019, Vol 116, Issue 2, p280
- ISSN
0039-3738
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/sip.2019.0011