Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare''s Language

Illuminates the pleasures and challenges of Shakespeare's complex language for today's students, teachers, actors and theatre-goers.

List of contents

Part I. Basic Elements: 1. Shakespeare and the problem of style Jeff Dolven; 2. Shakespeare's creativity with words Alysia Kolentsis; 3. The performative power of Shakespeare's language David Schalkwyk; 4. Verse and metre Oliver Morgan; 5. The dynamics of Shakespearean dialogue Lynne Magnusson; 6. Figures of speech at work Ruth Morse; Part II. Shaping Contexts: 7. Approaching Shakespeare through rhetoric Peter Mack; 8. Shakespeare and social languages James Siemon; Part III. New Technologies: 9. Digital approaches to Shakespeare's language Jonathan Hope; 10. Authorship, computers, and comparative style Hugh Craig; 11. Reading in time: cognitive dynamics and the literary experience of Shakespeare Amy Cook and Seth Frey; Part IV. Contemporary Sites for Language Change: 12. Writing for actors: language that cues performance Carol Chillington Rutter; 13. Language and translation Dirk Delabastita; 14. Popular culture and Shakespeare's language Douglas M. Lanier.

About the author

Lynne Magnusson is a Professor of English at the University of Toronto. Her ground-breaking articles and chapters treat topics such as the grammar of possibility in Shakespeare's language and the social rhetoric of Renaissance letters. She is the author of Shakespeare and Social Dialogue: Dramatic Language and Elizabethan Letters (Cambridge, 1999).David Schalkwyk is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Queen Mary University of London. He is a leading Shakespeare scholar and author of Shakespeare, Love and Service (Cambridge, 2008) and Shakespeare, Love and Language (Cambridge, 2018).

Product details

• Authors: Lynne (University of Toronto) Schalkwyk Magnusson
• Assisted by: Lynne Magnusson (Editor), Magnusson Lynne (Editor), David Schalkwyk (Editor), Schalkwyk David (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781107131934
• ISBN: 978-1-107-13193-4
• No. of pages: 310
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary companions, book reviews & guides, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary companions, book reviews and guides