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Shakespeare unlearned : pedantry, nonsense, and the philology of stupidity / Adam Zucker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zucker, Adam, 1972- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
- Shakespeare, William.
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- Stupidity in literature.
- Pedantry in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- A light-stepping, illuminating study of words and characters in Shakespeare's plays that pertain to the idea of 'stupidity', drawing on a variety of sources to explore the limits of scholarly learnedness, and the vibrancy of unlearned perspectives on obscure words and difficult art.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Textual Note
- Prologue
- Introduction: Toward a Philology of Stupidity
- 1 Twelfth Night and the Broken Jest
- 2 On Pedantry: Ben Jonson and the Invitation of Obscurity
- 3 Stage Pedants and Magisterial Nonsense
- 4 Twangling Instruments The Soundwork of The Tempest
- Acknowledgments
- Works Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 12, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-890680-3
- 0-19-890678-1
- OCLC:
- 1452042802
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