Turn-taking in Shakespeare

Turn-taking in Shakespeare is a book about dialogical form. Rather than focussing on what characters say, it focuses on when they say it. Rather than focussing on how they talk, it focuses on how they gain access to the floor. The book investigates what it means for a character to speak in or out of turn, to interrupt or overlap, or to fail to speak at all. It explores how these moments are–and are not–signalled by the Shakespearean text, how best to describe and understand them, and the implications of such questions for contemporary debates about editing, rhetoric, prosody, and early modern performance practices.