Shakespeare's World of Words

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Was Shakespeare really the original genius he has appeared to be since the eighteenth century, a poet whose words came from nature itself? The contributors to this volume propose that Shakespeare was not the poet of nature, but rather that he is a genius of rewriting and re-creation, someone able to generate a new language and new ways of seeing the world by orchestrating existing social and literary vocabularies. Each chapter in the volume begins with a key word or phrase from Shakespeare and builds toward a broader consideration of the social, poetic, and theatrical dimensions of his language. The chapters capture well the richness of Shakespeare’s world of words by including discussions of biblical language, Latinity, philosophy of language and subjectivity, languages of commerce, criminality, history, and education, the gestural vocabulary of performance, as well as accounts of verbal modality and Shakespeare’s metrics. An Afterword outlines a number of other important languages in Shakespeare, including those of law, news, and natural philosophy.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-10-22
Mått129 x 198 x 20 mm
Vikt426 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781472515292

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AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction1. Well-Won ThriftMichael Bristol (McGill University) and Sara Coodin (University of Oklahoma)2. Proper Names and Common Bodies: The Case of CressidaDavid Schalkwyk (Folger Shakespeare Library)3. Antique/Antic: Archaism, Neologism and the Play of Shakespeare’s Words in Love’s Labor’s Lost and 2 Henry IVLucy Munro (University of Keele)4. Learning to Color in HamletMiriam Jacobson (University of Georgia)5. Recasting ‘Angling’ in The Winter's TaleJ. A. Shea (Dawson College)6. ‘What may be and should be’: Grammar Moods and the Invention of History in 1 Henry VILynne Magnusson (University of Toronto) 7. Othello and Theatrical LanguageSarah Werner (Folger Shakespeare Library)8. Slips of Wilderness: Verbal and Gestural Language in Measure for MeasurePaul Yachnin and Patrick Neilson (McGill University)9. ‘Captious and Inteemable’: Reading Comprehension in ShakespeareMeredith Evans (Concordia University) 10. ‘Time is their master’: Men and Meter in The Comedy of ErrorsJennifer Roberts-Smith (University of Waterloo)BibliographyIndex

This impressive and wide-ranging volume brings together a variety of perspectives to consider the expansive world of words that unfolds on Shakespeare’s stage. One of the most welcome features of Shakespeare’s World of Words is its diverse body of contributors. Essays from literary scholars appear alongside those by theater practitioners and performance scholars … The “opening up” of interpretive possibilities is one of this volume’s best gifts. Readers come away with a renewed perspective on the many elements that render Shakespeare’s world of words so rich.