Shakespeare and LanguageCatherine M. S. Alexander This collection of essays 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. |
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Contents
Shakespeares language and the language of Shakespeares time | 18 |
The foundations of Elizabethan language | 44 |
Shakespeares talking animals | 68 |
Shakespeare and the tune of the time ΙΟΙ | 101 |
Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet the places of invention | 122 |
Richard II | 139 |
IO The art of the comic duologue in three plays by Shakespeare | 179 |
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