Author: Arnab Das

Abstract: The main motive of this paper is to draw a strong analytic study of Shakespeare’s phenomenal masterpiece of drama and challenge the preoccupied notions of conventionality regarding the fluidity of drama as a genre in comparison to novel’s superiority with reference to Bakhtin’s two of the most quintessential modern texts that led to the deeper study of the literary evolution of novel along with the ground-breaking linguistic observations in literature.

Keywords: addressivity, genre, novel, speech, utterance.

Article Info: Received: 22 Jul 2021; Received in revised form: 28 Aug 2021; Accepted: 05 Sep 2021; Available online: 11 Sep 2021

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.65.2