Shakespeare and Social Dialogue: Dramatic Language and Elizabethan LettersShakespeare and Social Dialogue develops a systematic analysis of the rhetoric of social exchange in early modern England. Magnusson brings together writings, particularly letters, from the Elizabethan period that are normally read as historical documents and compares them with Shakespeare's play texts and sonnets. Using techniques from discourse analysis and linguistic pragmatics, especially politeness theory, she argues that Shakespeare's language