Shakespeare S World Of Words

Author : Paul Yachnin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474252911

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Shakespeare's World of Words by Paul Yachnin Pdf

Was Shakespeare really the original genius he has appeared to be since the eighteenth century, a poet whose words came from nature itself? The contributors to this volume propose that Shakespeare was not the poet of nature, but rather that he is a genius of rewriting and re-creation, someone able to generate a new language and new ways of seeing the world by orchestrating existing social and literary vocabularies. Each chapter in the volume begins with a key word or phrase from Shakespeare and builds toward a broader consideration of the social, poetic, and theatrical dimensions of his language. The chapters capture well the richness of Shakespeare's world of words by including discussions of biblical language, Latinity, philosophy of language and subjectivity, languages of commerce, criminality, history, and education, the gestural vocabulary of performance, as well as accounts of verbal modality and Shakespeare's metrics. An Afterword outlines a number of other important languages in Shakespeare, including those of law, news, and natural philosophy.

Author : Simon Palfrey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0198186894

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Late Shakespeare by Simon Palfrey Pdf

This text examines Shakespeare's late plays, which are usually seen in terms of courtliness and escapism. Post-structuralist and historicist approaches show the indeterminacy and materiality of language, but rarely identify how particular figures capture and energize contested history.

Author : Ben Crystal,David Crystal
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780141941523

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Shakespeare's Words by Ben Crystal,David Crystal Pdf

A vital resource for scholars, students and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood by or are unknown to a modern audience. Displayed panels look at such areas of Shakespeare's language as greetings, swear-words and terms of address. Plot summaries are included for all Shakespeare's plays and on the facing page is a unique diagramatic representation of the relationships within each play.

Author : Lisa Adlam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 178443941X

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Shake-up Shakespeare by Lisa Adlam Pdf

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061983658

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Shakespeare by Bill Bryson Pdf

William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, from today's most respected academics to eccentrics like Delia Bacon, an American who developed a firm but unsubstantiated conviction that her namesake, Francis Bacon, was the true author of Shakespeare's plays. Emulating the style of his famous travelogues, Bryson records episodes in his research, including a visit to a bunkerlike room in Washington, D.C., where the world's largest collection of First Folios is housed. Bryson celebrates Shakespeare as a writer of unimaginable talent and enormous inventiveness, a coiner of phrases ("vanish into thin air," "foregone conclusion," "one fell swoop") that even today have common currency. His Shakespeare is like no one else's—the beneficiary of Bryson's genial nature, his engaging skepticism, and a gift for storytelling unrivaled in our time.

Author : Catherine M. S. Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521539005

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Shakespeare and Language by Catherine M. S. Alexander Pdf

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Author : Jane Sutcliffe
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781580896399

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Will's Words by Jane Sutcliffe Pdf

When Jane Sutcliffe sets out to write a book about William Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre, in her own words, she runs into a problem: Will's words keep popping up all over the place! What's an author to do? After all, Will is responsible for such familiar phrases as "what's done is done" and "too much of a good thing." He even helped turn "household words" into household words. But, Jane embraces her dilemma, writing about Shakespeare, his plays, and his famous phrases with glee. After all, what better words are there to use to write about the greatest writer in the English language than his very own? As readers will discover, "the long and the short of it" is this: Will changed the English language forever. Backmatter includes an author’s note, a bibliography, and a timeline.

Author : Jonathan P. Lamb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108148436

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Shakespeare in the Marketplace of Words by Jonathan P. Lamb Pdf

Making innovative use of digital and library archives, this book explores how Shakespeare used language to interact with the verbal marketplace of early modern England. By also combining word history with book history, Jonathan P. Lamb demonstrates Shakespeare's response to the world of words around him, in and through the formal features of his works. In chapters that focus on particular rhetorical features in Richard II, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Hamlet, and Troilus and Cressida, Lamb argues that we can best understand Shakespeare's writing practice by scrutinizing how the formal features of his works circulated in an economy of imaginative writing. Shakespeare's interactions with this verbal market preceded and made possible his reputation as a playwright and dramatist. He was, in his time, a great buyer and seller of words.

Author : Simon Palfrey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Metaphor
ISBN : 0191674605

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Late Shakespeare by Simon Palfrey Pdf

Closely analysing Shakespeare's use of language and genre, this volume presents a new vision of character, metaphor and politics in Shakespeare's later works.

Author : Russ McDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780198711711

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Shakespeare and the Arts of Language by Russ McDonald Pdf

'Russ McDonald... offers an initiation into Shakespeares English.... Like a good musician leading us beyond merely humming the tunes, he helps us hear Shakespearean unclarity, revealing just how expression in late Shakespeare sometimes transcends ordinary verbal meaning.... particularly recommendable.' -Ruth Morse, Times Literary Supplement 'Oxford University Press offer a mix of engagingly written introductions to a variety of Topics intended largely for undergraduates. Each author has clearly been reading and listening to the most recent scholarship, but they wear their learning lightly.' -Ruth Morse, Times Literary SupplementOxford Shakespeare Topics (General Editors Peter Holland and Stanley Wells) provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. Notes and a critical guide to further reading equip the interested reader with the means to broaden research. For the modern reader or playgoer, English as Shakespeare used it - especially in verse drama - can seem alien. Shakespeare and the Arts of Language offers practical help with linguistic and poetic obstacles. Written in a lucid, nontechnical style, the book defines Shakespeare's artistic tools, including imagery, rhetoric, and wordplay, and illustrates their effects. Throughout, the reader is encouraged to find delight in the physical properties of the words: their colour, weight, and texture, the appeal of verbal patterns, and the irresistible affective power of intensified language.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781645171867

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William Shakespeare Tragedies by William Shakespeare Pdf

Twelve of Shakespeare’s most profound and moving dramas in one elegant volume. William Shakespeare’s tragedies introduced the world to some of the most well-known characters in literature, including Romeo, Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, and Othello. This handsome Word Cloud volume includes all twelve works from the First Folio that are commonly classified as tragedies—but the feelings that Shakespeare’s words can evoke range across the spectrum of human emotion.

Author : Frank Harris
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664571885

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The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story by Frank Harris Pdf

In 'The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story' author Frank Harris traces the story of William Shakespeare through his plays, showing how the playwright painted himself in twenty different characters at different stages of his life. Harris argues that Shakespeare is more interesting than other great writers because he painted himself as a young and inexperienced artist, in his eventful maturity, and in his decline. Harris claims that previous commentators have missed the man and his story, and instead idealized him, and thus in this book, he seeks to use scientific methods to recreate Shakespeare, highlighting both his virtues and vices, and ultimately making him clearer to readers.

Author : Simon Palfrey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107058279

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Shakespeare's Possible Worlds by Simon Palfrey Pdf

Simon Palfrey offers a new way of understanding Shakespeare's playworlds, with piercingly original readings of language, scenes, and characters.

Author : Ina Habermann,Michelle Witen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137518354

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Shakespeare and Space by Ina Habermann,Michelle Witen Pdf

This collection offers an overview of the ways in which space has become relevant to the study of Shakespearean drama and theatre. It distinguishes various facets of space, such as structural aspects of dramatic composition, performance space and the evocation of place, linguistic, social and gendered spaces, early modern geographies, and the impact of theatrical mobility on cultural exchange and the material world. These facets of space are exemplified in individual essays. Throughout, the Shakespearean stage is conceived as a topological ‘node’, or interface between different times, places and people – an approach which also invokes Edward Soja’s notion of ‘Thirdspace’ to describe the blend between the real and the imaginary characteristic of Shakespeare’s multifaceted theatrical world. Part Two of the volume emphasises the theatrical mobility of Hamlet – conceptually from an anthropological perspective, and historically in the tragedy’s migrations to Germany, Russia and North America.

Author : Michael Rosen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Dramatists, English
ISBN : 1844287246

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Shakespeare by Michael Rosen Pdf

Shakespeare: His Work and His World is written by Michael Rosen in an accessible, modern, child-friendly style. As well as facts about his life and the theatre of the day, Rosen provides lively studies of Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear and The Tempest. Also included is a detailed analysis of a scene from Romeo and Juliet.