Shakespeare and the Arts of Language

Name: Shakespeare and the Arts of Language
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ISBN: 9780198711711

ISBN-10: 0198711719

ISBN-13: 9780198711711

Edition: 2001

Authors: Russ McDonald

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Written in a lucid, non-technical style, the book starts with the story of how the English language changed throughout the sixteenth century. Subsequent chapters define Shakespeare's main artistic tools and illustrate their poetic and theatrical contributions: Renaissance rhetoric, imagery and metaphor, blank verse, prose speech, and wordplay. The conclusion surveys Shakespeare's multiple and often conflicting ideas about language, encompassing both his enthusiasm at what words can do for us and his suspicion of what words can do to us.

Book details

List price: $33.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/5/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 222
Size: 5.31" wide x 7.99" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Preface



The Language Shakespeare Learned



Shaping the Language: Words, Patterns, and the Traditions of Rhetoric



What is the Figure?



A World of Figures



Loosening the Line: Shakespeare's Metrical Development



Here Follows Prose



Double Talk



Words Effectual, Speech Unable


Notes


Further Reading


Index