Russ McDonald is Bank of America Excellence Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Review of the hardback: 'McDonald's analysis is both original and convincing. He is an attuned close reader, combining sensitivity to tone and metre with precision.' The Times Literary Supplement

• Introduction; 1. The idioms of the late tragedies; 2. Elision; 3. Syntax (I): divagation; 4. Syntax (II): suspension; 5. Repetition; 6. Style and the making of meaning.

Russ McDonald is Bank of America Excellence Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Review of the hardback: 'McDonald's analysis is both original and convincing. He is an attuned close reader, combining sensitivity to tone and metre with precision.' The Times Literary Supplement

• Introduction; 1. The idioms of the late tragedies; 2. Elision; 3. Syntax (I): divagation; 4. Syntax (II): suspension; 5. Repetition; 6. Style and the making of meaning.

Russ McDonald is Bank of America Excellence Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Review of the hardback: 'McDonald's analysis is both original and convincing. He is an attuned close reader, combining sensitivity to tone and metre with precision.' The Times Literary Supplement

• Introduction; 1. The idioms of the late tragedies; 2. Elision; 3. Syntax (I): divagation; 4. Syntax (II): suspension; 5. Repetition; 6. Style and the making of meaning.