Stylistics and Shakespeare's Language

Mireille Ravassat is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language at Valenciennes University, France Jonathan Culpeper is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK

• List of contributors; Introduction, Mireille Ravassat & Jonathan Culpeper; 1. 'Strange deliveries': contextualising Shakespeare's first citations in the OED Giles Goodland; 2. Shakespeare's vocabulary: did it dwarf all others? Ward E. Y. Elliott & Robert J. Valenza; 3. A new kind of dictionary for Shakespeare's plays: an immodest proposal Jonathan Culpeper; 4. 'If I break time': Shakespearean line endings on the page and the stage Peter Kanelos; 5. Subject-verb inversion and iambic rhythm in Shakespeare's dramatic verse Richard Ingham and Michael Ingham; 6. Shakespeare's 'short' pentameters and the rhythms of dramatic verse Peter Groves; 7. Wholes and holes in the study of Shakespeare's wordplay Dirk Delabastita; 8 'a thing inseparate / Divides more wider than the sky and earth' - of oxymoron in Shakespeare's Sonnets Mireille Ravassat; 9. 'Rue with a difference': a computational stylistic analysis of the rhetoric of suicide in Hamlet Thomas Anderson and Scott Crossley; 10. Shakespeare's sexual language and metaphor: a cognitivestylistic approach Jose L. Oncins Martinez; 11. Cognitive Interplay: cognitive science meets theatre and performance theory Amy Cook; Bibliography; Index.

This is a book full of fresh and illuminating perspectives and methods. It makes you realize the study of Shakespeare's language is only just beginning.