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Shakespeare and Language

Shakespeare and Language

Jonathan Hope, Stephen Booth, Muriel St. Clare Byrne, Terence Hawkes, Vivian Salmon, Bridget Cusack, Jill L. Levenson, Robert Hapgood, Inga-Stina Ewbank, Robert Wilcher, Philippa Berry, Lynne Magnusson, Albert H. Tricomi, George Walton Williams, Lisa Hopkins, Russ McDonald
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  • Date Published: September 2004
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521539005

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  • Shakespeare and language is an area of study that here includes style, speech, sound and sex. As the foremost Shakespeare publication, Shakespeare Survey has been well placed to reflect trends and developments in academic approaches to Shakespeare and to language and this collection of essays considers the characteristics, excitement and unique qualities of Shakespeare's language, the relationship between language and event, and the social, theatrical and literary function of language. A new introduction, by Jonathan Hope, explicates the differences between Shakespeare's language and our own, provides a theoretical and contextual framework for the pieces that follow, and makes transparent an aspect of Shakespeare's craft (and the critical response to it) that has frequently been opaque.

    • Language is right back in fashion within Shakespeare studies
    • Focus here not just on lexical issues but also on imagery, speech patterns, linguistics
    • Newly commissioned introduction and 15 previously published essays, reprinted from Shakespeare Survey
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    '… excellent … Shakespeare and Language challenges the ways in which the modern reader approaches the visual, oral and aural qualities of Elizabethan language.' The Times Literary Supplement

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    • Date Published: September 2004
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521539005
    • length: 304 pages
    • dimensions: 228 x 152 x 19 mm
    • weight: 0.41kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    1. Shakespeare and language: an introduction Jonathan Hope
    2. Shakespeare's language and the language of Shakespeare's time Stephen Booth
    3. The foundations of Elizabethan language Muriel St. Clare Byrne
    4. Shakespeare's talking animals Terence Hawkes
    5. Some functions of Shakespearian word-formation Vivian Salmon
    6. Shakespeare and the tune of the time Bridget Cusack
    7. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: the places of invention Jill L. Levenson
    8. Shakespeare's thematic modes of speech: Richard II to Henry V Robert Hapgood
    9. Hamlet and the power of words Inga-Stina Ewbank
    10. The art of the comic duologue in three plays by Shakespeare Robert Wilcher
    11. Hamlet's ear Philippa Berry
    12. 'Voice potential': language and symbolic capital in Othello Lynne Magnusson
    13. The aesthetics of mutilation in Titus Andronicus Albert H. Tricomi
    14. 'Time for such a word': verbal echoing in Macbeth George Walton Williams
    15. Household words: Macbeth and the failure of spectacle Lisa Hopkins
    16. Late Shakespeare: style and the sexes Russ McDonald.

  • Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses

    • Intro to Shakespeare
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    Catherine M. S. Alexander, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham
    Catherine M. S. Alexander is a lecturer at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. She is editor of The Cambridge Shakespeare Library and co-editor of Shakespeare and Race (2001) and Shakespeare and Sexuality (2001).

    Contributors

    Jonathan Hope, Stephen Booth, Muriel St. Clare Byrne, Terence Hawkes, Vivian Salmon, Bridget Cusack, Jill L. Levenson, Robert Hapgood, Inga-Stina Ewbank, Robert Wilcher, Philippa Berry, Lynne Magnusson, Albert H. Tricomi, George Walton Williams, Lisa Hopkins, Russ McDonald

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