Shakesplish - How We Read Shakespeare''s Language

Zusatztext "Blank returns the reader to the act of luxuriating in the opulent richness of Shakespeare's language like no other scholar I have ever encountered. Shakesplish: How We Read Shakespeare's Language will be consulted for decades to come because of its indefatigable energy and exuberate erudition." Informationen zum Autor Paula Blank (1959–2016) was Margaret L. Hamilton Professor of English at the College of William and Mary and the author of Broken English (1996) and Shakespeare and the Mismeasure of Man (2006). Klappentext Paula Blank (1959¿2016) was Margaret L. Hamilton Professor of English at the College of William and Mary and the author of Broken English (1996) and Shakespeare and the Mismeasure of Man (2006). Zusammenfassung This book on Shakespeare's language is the first to explore how we modern American or English-speaking readers hear, understand, fail to understand, are amused, disturbed, bored, moved, and challenged by it today. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. "Shakespeare in Modern English" 2. "Beautiful" 3. "Sexy" 4. "Funny" 5. "Smart" 6. "Shakespeare as Modern English"

Product details

• Authors: Paula Blank
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781503607576
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-0757-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Square One: First-Order Questi; Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities; Square One: First-Order Questi; Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics