What is the author's style in Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf?

Author, Virginia Woolf, displays her masterful knowledge of English literature and history by incorporating an impressive array of literary allusions into both character dialogue, as well as the pageant production. Everything from Shakespeare to nursery rhymes to nonfiction and contemporary fiction are represented in a sort of dizzying cavalcade of verbosity. The effect is fragmentation, overload, and asphyxiation. Confusing bits of conversation pulled from many sources assault and overwhelm the reader. Lines from the pageant are so chopped up as to be nonsensical from time to time. Isa's dialogue in particular must be deciphered and studied because she speaks primarily by mimicking lines from the pageant or lines remembered from childhood rhymes. This frantic wordplay reaches a crescendo in the "Ourselves" portion of the pageant, in which the guttural vocalizations of the imp and demon characters join with disjointed jazz music join with figures from previous portions of the pageant speaking their lines. The result is sheer pandemonium, which provides a striking commentary on how Virginia Woolf may be viewing contemporary existence, as a sort of furious, confusing, overwhelming buzz. Mrs. Swithin is also complicit in this; in her senility she has difficulty communicating with the outside world, and instead her dialogue consists of bits of memories from her past or part of a book she read, with little relation to the real world or current circumstances.