The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare's language / edited by Lynne Magnusson with David Schalkwyk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Magnusson, Lynne, editor.

Schalkwyk, David, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Language.

Shakespeare, William.

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

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Language and languages.

Literary style.

Physical Description:

xiv, 293 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"The power of Shakespeare's complex language - his linguistic playfulness, poetic diction and dramatic dialogue - inspires and challenges students, teachers, actors and theatre-goers across the globe. It has iconic status and enormous resonance, even as language change and the distance of time render it more opaque and difficult. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Language provides important contexts for understanding Shakespeare's experiments with language and offers accessible approaches to engaging with it directly and pleasurably. Incorporating both practical analysis and exemplary readings of Shakespearean passages, it covers elements of style, metre, speech action and dialogue; examines the shaping contexts of rhetorical education and social language; test-drives newly available digital methodologies and technologies; and considers Shakespeare's language in relation to performance, translation and popular culture. The Companion explains the present state of understanding while identifying opportunities for fresh discovery, leaving students equipped to ask productive questions and try out innovative methods"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Shakespeare and the problem of style / Jeff Dolven

Shakespeare's creativity with words / Alysia Kolentsis

The performative power of Shakespeare's language / David Schalkwyk

Verse and metre / Oliver Morgan

The dynamics of Shakespearean dialogue / Lynne Magnusson

Figures of speech at work / Ruth Morse

Approaching Shakespeare through rhetoric / Peter Mack

Shakespeare and social languages / James Siemon

Digital approaches to Shakespeare's language / Jonathan Hope

Authorship, computers, and comparative style / Hugh Craig

Reading in time : cognitive dynamics and the literary experience of Shakespeare / Amy Cook And Seth Frey

Writing for actors : language that cues performance / Carol Chillington Rutter

Language and translation / Dirk Delabastita

Popular culture and Shakespeare's language / Douglas M. Lanier.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781107583184

9781107131934

1107131936

1107583187

OCLC:

1083699253

Publisher Number:

99985067964