Shakespeare and language : reason, eloquence and artifice in the Renaissance / Jonathan Hope.
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 audien...
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| Other title: | Shakespeare & language : reason, eloquence and artifice in the Renaissance. |
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Arden Shakespeare/Methuen Drama,
2010.
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| Series: | Arden Shakespeare library.
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Table of Contents:
- Ideas about Language in the Renaissance
- Ideas about Language in Shakespeare : Discourse, Artifice and Silence
- Ideas about Language in Shakespeare : Words
- Linguistic Judgement
- Agency and Uncertainty in Shakespeare's Syntax
- The Language of Genre
- Afterword: Tokyo, March 2010.