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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827148703321

Autore

Rhodes Neil <1953->

Titolo

Shakespeare and the origins of English / / Neil Rhodes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2007

©2004

ISBN

1-281-19084-5

0-19-152975-3

1-4356-3388-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 260 p.)

Disciplina

891.4309

Soggetti

English literature - Study and teaching - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2004.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-253) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction; 1. Renaissance Articulations; 2. Did Shakespeare Study Creative Writing?; 3. Both Sides Now; 4. Vernacular Values; 5. Commonplace Shakespeare; 6. The Origins of English; Afterword

Sommario/riassunto

What did Shakespeare learn at school? Did he study creative writing? This book addresses these and similar questions as the author shows where the modern subject of 'English' came from, and what part Shakespeare played in its formation.