Shakespeare in the Marketplace of Words

This book explores the words, forms, and styles Shakespeare used to interact with the verbal marketplace of early modern England.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan P. Lamb, Jonathan P. (University of Kansas) Lamb
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781316644140
• ISBN: 978-1-316-64414-0
• No. of pages: 255
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Popular Culture, English, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Language: history & general works, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Language: history and general works, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean