Think on My Words Exploring Shakespeare's Language

Name: Think on My Words Exploring Shakespeare's Language
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ISBN: 9780521700351

ISBN-10: 0521700353

ISBN-13: 9780521700351

Edition: 2008

Authors: David Crystal

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You speak a language that I understand not. Hermiones words to Leontes in The Winters Tale are likely to ring true with many people reading or watching Shakespeares plays today. For decades, people have been studying Shakespeares life and times, and in recent years there has been a renewed surge of interest into aspects of his language. So how can we better understand Shakespeare? How did he manipulate language to produce such an unrivalled body of work, which has enthralled generations both as theatre and as literature? David Crystal addresses these and many other questions in this lively and original introduction to Shakespeares language. Covering in turn the five main dimensions of…

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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/21/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 266
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of figures and tables


Preface


Abbreviations



'You speak a language that I understand not': myths and realities


The quantity myth


The invention myth


The translation myth


The style myth



'Now, sir, what is your text?' Knowing the sources


Texts


Printing


Manuscripts?


Shakespeare's language?



'In print I found it': Shakespearean graphology


The alphabet


Capitalization


Space-savers


Spelling



'Know my stops': Shakespearean punctuation


Exclamation marks


Parentheses


Apostrophes


Italics


Inverted commas


Hyphens



'Speak the speech': Shakespearean phonology


The way they said it


Prosody


Why pentameters?



'Trippingly upon the tongue': Shakespearean pronunciation


The evidence


Insights



'Think on my words': Shakespearean vocabulary


Easy words


Metrical constraints


Difficult words


False friends


Old and new words


Coinages


Clusters


Repetitions


Signposts


Collocations


Perspective



'Talk of a noun and a verb': Shakespearean grammar


Similarities and differences


Nouns


Adjectives


Verbs


Pronouns


Word order



'Hear sweet discourse': Shakespearean conversation


Verse and prose


Metre in discourse


Varieties of language


A legal example


Epilogue - 'Your daring tongue': Shakespearean creativity



An A-to-Z of Shakespeare's false friends


Notes


References and further reading


Index