Shakespeare and language / edited by Catherine M.S. Alexander.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alexander, Catherine M. S., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Language.

Shakespeare, William.

English language--Early modern, 1500-1700.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 294 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Shakespeare & Language

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, first published in 2004, 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.

Contents:

Shakespeare and Language: an introduction / Jonathan Hope

Shakespeare's language and the language of Shakespeare's time / Stephen Booth

Foundations of Elizabethan language / Muriel St. Clare Byrne

Shakespeare's talking animals / Terence Hawkes

Some functions of Shakespearian word-formation / Vivian Salmon

Shakespeare and the tune of the time ssr Bridget Cusack

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: the places of invention / Jill L. Levenson

Shakespeare's thematic modes of speech: Richard II to Henry V / Robert Hapgood

Hamlet and the power of words / Inga-Stina Ewbank

Art of the comic duologue in three plays by Shakespeare / Robert Wilcher

Hamlet's Ear / Philippa Berry

'Voice potential': language and symbolic capital in Othello / Lynne Magnusson

Aesthetics of mutilation in Titus Andronicus / Albert H. Tricomi

'Time for such a word': verbal echoing in Macbeth / George Walton Williams

Household words: Macbeth and the failure of spectacle / Lisa Hopkins

Late Shakespeare: style and the sexes / Russ McDonald.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-16063-4

1-280-70212-5

0-511-23129-6

0-511-23052-4

0-511-22890-2

0-511-31656-9

0-511-61737-2

0-511-22974-7

OCLC:

171139586