Shakespeare's Common Language

What can developments in contemporary linguistics and language theory reveal about Shakespeare''s language in the plays? Shakespeare''s Common Language demonstrates how methods borrowed from language criticism can illuminate the surprising expressive force of Shakespeare''s common words. With chapters focused on different approaches based in language theory, the book analyses language change in Coriolanus ; discourse analysis in Troilus and Cressida ; pragmatics in Richard II ; and various aspects of grammar in As You Like It . In mapping the tools of linguistics and language theory onto the study of literature, and employing finely-grained close readings of dialogue, Shakespeare''s Common Language frames a methodology that offers a fresh approach to reading dramatic language.>

About the author

Alysia Kolentsis is Professor of English at St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Product details

• Authors: Alysia Kolentsis
• Publisher: Arden shakespeare
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.06.2021
• EAN: 9781350235977
• ISBN: 978-1-350-23597-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: The Arden Shakespeare; Arden Shakespeare Studies in Language and Digital Methodologies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, Historical & comparative linguistics, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Historical and comparative linguistics, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean