ABSTRACT

What is the relation between the language being heard and the picture being simultaneously exhibited on the stage? Typically there is an identity between sound and sight, but often there is a divergence between what the audience hears and what is sees. These divergences are 'insets' and examines the motives, mechanics and poetic qualities of these narrative poems embedded in the plays.

chapter I|13 pages

Introductory

chapter II|16 pages

Narrative and Dramatic

chapter III|11 pages

Kyd and the Inset

chapter IV|15 pages

The Expository Inset

chapter VI|23 pages

The Voluntary Inset

chapter VII|18 pages

The Song Inset

chapter VIII|28 pages

The Insets of Hamlet

chapter X|5 pages

Epilogue