Keith Johnson

Shakespeare's Language (eBook, PDF)

Perspectives Past and Present

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In Shakespeare's Language, Keith Johnson offers an overview of the rich and dynamic history of the reception and study of Shakespeare's language from his death right up to the present. Tracing a chronological history of Shakespeare's language, Keith Johnson also picks up on classic and contemporary themes, such as:

• lexical and digital studies
• original pronunciation
• rhetoric
• grammar.

The historical approach provides a comprehensive overview, plotting the attitudes towards Shakespeare's language, as well as a history of its study. This approach reveals how different cultural and literary trends have moulded these attitudes and reflects changing linguistic climates; the book also includes a chapter that looks to the future. Shakespeare's Language is therefore not only an essential guide to the language of Shakespeare, but it offers crucial insights to broader approaches to language as a whole.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315303062
• Artikelnr.: 56835532

Autorenporträt

Keith Johnson is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and Language Education at the University of Lancaster, UK. He is the author of The History of Early English (2016) and Shakespeare's English (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Till 1950 1. The seventeenth century: 'true sublimity... but puffy
style' 2. 'Retrieving original purity': the eighteenth century 3. Measuring
and classifying: the nineteenth century 4. Making Shakespeare difficult:
the early twentieth century Part 2: 1950 On 5. From oxcart to computer:
lexical studies 6. 'A richness of variant forms': grammar 7. Shakespearean
'rules of use': pragmatics 8. Original pronounciation: 'pronounced out of
Ireland'? 9. 'Multifarious liberty and gay individualism': Shakespeare in
print 10. Verse and prose: changing a 'sorry bed' 11. Rhetoric: 'maggot
ostentation'? 12. Where the future lies References

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Part 1: Till 1950 1. The seventeenth century: 'true sublimity... but puffy style' 2. 'Retrieving original purity': the eighteenth century 3. Measuring and classifying: the nineteenth century 4. Making Shakespeare difficult: the early twentieth century Part 2: 1950 On 5. From oxcart to computer: lexical studies 6. 'A richness of variant forms': grammar 7. Shakespearean 'rules of use': pragmatics 8. Original pronounciation: 'pronounced out of Ireland'? 9. 'Multifarious liberty and gay individualism': Shakespeare in print 10. Verse and prose: changing a 'sorry bed' 11. Rhetoric: 'maggot ostentation'? 12. Where the future lies References