Shakespeare and the Arts of Language (Oxford Shakespeare

Shakespeare and the Arts of Language (Oxford Shakespeare Topics)

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.
Country USA
Brand OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Manufacturer Oxford University Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780198711711
ReleaseDate 2001-04-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780198711711

Shakespeare and the Arts of Language (Oxford Shakespeare Topics)