عنوان

Shakespeare and language :

(Number (ISBN

1408143747

(Number (ISBN

9781408143742

Erroneous ISBN

1904271693

Erroneous ISBN

9781904271697

Title Proper

Shakespeare and language :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

reason, eloquence and artifice in the Renaissance /

First Statement of Responsibility

Jonathan Hope.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

London :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Arden Shakespeare/Methuen Drama,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2010.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xvi, 247 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations

Series Title

Arden Shakespeare Library

Text of Note

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

Text of Note

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

Text of Note

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.

Title

Shakespeare and language

International Standard Book Number

9781904271697

Cover Title

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

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Edition

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Book number

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System Code

System Code

Hope, Jonathan,1962-

Date of Transaction

20200823063023.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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