Shakespeare in the Marketplace of Words

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan P. Lamb is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Kansas. His work has appeared in Huntington Library Quarterly, Studies in Philology, and Medieval and Renaissance Drama. Klappentext This book explores the words! forms! and styles Shakespeare used to interact with the verbal marketplace of early modern England. Zusammenfassung This book explores Shakespeare's use of language to interact with the verbal marketplace in which he worked. With chapters focusing on particular rhetorical features in five of Shakespeare's plays! the book appeals to scholars of Shakespearean language! digital humanities! history of the book! and the literary versus the theatrical Shakespeare. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Shakespeare's writing practice: value, exchange, and the work of form; 2. The stylistic self in Richard II; 3. Portia's laboratory: The Merchant of Venice and the new science; 4. The medium and the message: As You Like It; 5. Hamlet's parenthesis; 6. Shakespeare rewords Chaucer: Troilus and Cressida; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan P. Lamb, Jonathan P. (University of Kansas) Lamb
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.07.2017
• EAN: 9781107193314
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19331-4
• No. of pages: 254
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Irland, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600