Shakespeare in the marketplace of words / Jonathan P. Lamb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamb, Jonathan P., 1980- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Language.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Literary style.

Literary style.

English language--Early modern, 1500-1700--Terms and phrases.

English language.

Terms and phrases.

English language--Early modern.

Physical Description:

xii, 243 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"Making innovative use of digital and library archives, this book explores how Shakespeare used language to interact with the verbal marketplace of early modern England. By also combining word history with book history, Jonathan P. Lamb demonstrates Shakespeare's response to the world of words around him, in and through the formal features of his works. In chapters that focus on particular rhetorical features in Richard II, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Hamlet, and Troilus and Cressida, Lamb argues that we can best understand Shakespeare's writing practice by scrutinizing how the formal features of his works circulated in an economy of imaginative writing. Shakespeare's interactions with this verbal market preceded and made possible his reputation as a playwright and dramatist. He was, in his time, a great buyer and seller of words"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Shakespeare's writing practice : value, exchange, and the work of form

The stylistic self in Richard II

Portia's laboratory : The Merchant of Venice and the new science

The medium and the message : As You Like It

Hamlet's parenthesis

Shakespeare rewords Chaucer : Troilus and Cressida

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107193314

1107193311

OCLC:

987070415