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Europe's languages on England's stages, 1590-1620 / Marianne Montgomery.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR651 .M66 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Montgomery, Marianne, 1977-
- Series:
- Studies in performance and early modern drama
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- English drama--17th century--History and criticism.
- Language and culture--England--History.
- Language and culture.
- Languages in contact--England--History.
- Languages in contact.
- National characteristics in literature.
- Language and languages in literature.
- Theater--England--History--16th century.
- Theater.
- History.
- England.
- Theater--England--History--17th century.
- National characteristics in the theater.
- Physical Description:
- XII, 150 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT. : Ashgate Pub. Co., [2012]
- Summary:
- Though representations of alien languages on the early modern stage have usually been read as mocking, xenophobic, or at the very least extremely anxious, listening closely to these languages in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Marianne Montgomery discerns a more complex reality. She argues instead that the drama of the early modern period holds up linguistic variety as a source of strength and offers playgoers a cosmopolitan engagement with the foreign that, while still sometimes anxious, complicates easy national distinctions. The study surveys six of the European languages heard on London's commercial stages during the three decades between 1590 and 1620 - Welsh, French, Dutch, Spanish, Irish and Latin - and the distinct sets of cultural issues that they made audible. Exploring issues of culture and performance raised by representations of European languages on the stage, this book joins and advances two critical conversations on early modern drama.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Europe's languages on page and stage
- Mother tongues: Welsh and French in Shakespeare's second tetralogy
- Language, trade, and community: three Dutch plays
- Spanish and sundry languages
- Latin's social static
- Afterword: stage Irish, past and present.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781409422877
- 1409422879
- 9781409422884
- 1409422887
- OCLC:
- 804036594
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