Renaissance Literature and Linguistic Creativity

Summary

Focusing on Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene and shorter poetry, George Chapman's Ovids Banquet of Sence, Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and Hamlet, and John Donne's Elegies, this study interrogates notions of linguistic creativity as presented in English literary texts of the late sixteenth century.

Product details

• Authors: James Harmer, Harmer James
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367881986
• ISBN: 978-0-367-88198-6
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; DRAMA / General, HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Ancient History, Literary theory, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literature: history and criticism, Plays, Playscripts, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights