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Shakespeare and language :

1408143747

9781408143742

1904271693

9781904271697

Shakespeare and language :

[Book]

reason, eloquence and artifice in the Renaissance /

Jonathan Hope.

London :

Arden Shakespeare/Methuen Drama,

2010.

1 online resource (xvi, 247 pages) :

illustrations

Arden Shakespeare Library

"Arden Shakespeare is an imprint of Methuen Drama"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-239) and index.

Why would Elizabethan audiences find Shakespeare's Porter in Macbeth so funny? And what exactly is meant by the name the 'Weird' Sisters? Jonathan Hope, in a comprehensive and fascinating study, looks at how the concept of words meant something entirely different to Elizabethan audiences than they do to us today. In Shakespeare and Language: Reason, Eloquence and Artifice in the Renaissance, he traces the ideas about language that separate us from Shakespeare. Our understanding of 'words', and how they get their meanings, based on a stable spelling system and dictionary definitions, simply does not hold. Language in the Renaissance was speech rather than writing--for most writers at the time, a 'word' was by definition a collection of sounds, not letters--and the consequences of this run deep. They explain our culture's inability to appreciate Shakespeare's wordplay, and suggest that a rift opened up in the seventeenth century as language came to be regarded as essentially 'written'. The book also considers the visual iconography of language in the Renaissance, the influence of the rhetorical tradition, the extent to which Shakespeare's late style is driven by a desire to increase the subjective content of the text, and new ways of studying Shakespeare's language using computers. As such it will be of great interest to all serious students and teachers of Shakespeare. Despite the complexity of its subject matter, the book is accessibly written with an undergraduate readership in mind.--Product Description.

Shakespeare and language

9781904271697

Shakespeare & language : reason, eloquence and artifice in the Renaissance

Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Language.

Shakespeare, William-- Sprache und Stil.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Shakespeare, William,1564-1616.

English language-- Early modern, 1500-1700.

DRAMA-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

Engels.

English language-- Early modern.

Language and languages.

Sprache

Taal.

DRA-- 003000

Hope, Jonathan,1962-

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