04182nam 22006011 450 991079115400332120200514202323.01-4081-4375-51-4725-5515-51-4081-4374-710.5040/9781472555151(CKB)2550000001351850(EBL)1778916(SSID)ssj0001414435(PQKBManifestationID)11787533(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001414435(PQKBWorkID)11432145(PQKB)11665967(MiAaPQ)EBC1778916(OCoLC)890146609(UkLoBP)bpp09257241(MiAaPQ)EBC6158631(EXLCZ)99255000000135185020140929d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrShakespeare and language reason, eloquence and artifice in the Renaissance /Jonathan HopeLondon :Arden Shakespeare,2010.1 online resource (264 p.)The Arden Shakespeare libraryFirst published in 2010 by Methuen Drama.1-322-10610-X 1-904271-69-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE; A NOTE ON TEXTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF TABLES; Chapter One: Ideas about Language in the Renaissance; Chapter Two: Ideas about Language in Shakespeare 1: Discourse, Artifice and Silence; Chapter Three: Ideas about Language in Shakespeare 2: Words; Chapter Four: Fritters of English: Variation and Linguistic Judgement; Chapter Five: Agency and Uncertainty in Shakespeare's Syntax; Chapter Six The Language of Genre; AFTERWORD: TOKYO, MARCH 2010; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W"'Much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and not stand to: in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.' Porter, Macbeth, II i. Why would Elizabethan audiences find Shakespeare's Porter in Macbeth so funny? And what exactly is meant by the name the 'Weird' Sisters? Jonathan Hope, in a comprehensive and fascinating study, looks at how the concept of words meant something entirely different to Elizabethan audiences than they do to us today. In Shakespeare and Language: Reason, Eloquence and Artifice in the Renaissance, he traces the ideas about language that separate us from Shakespeare. Our understanding of 'words', and how they get their meanings, based on a stable spelling system and dictionary definitions, simply does not hold. Language in the Renaissance was speech rather than writing-for most writers at the time, a 'word' was by definition a collection of sounds, not letters-and the consequences of this run deep. They explain our culture's inability to appreciate Shakespeare's wordplay, and suggest that a rift opened up in the seventeenth century as language came to be regarded as essentially 'written'. The book also considers the visual iconography of language in the Renaissance, the influence of the rhetorical tradition, the extent to which Shakespeare's late style is driven by a desire to increase the subjective content of the text, and new ways of studying Shakespeare's language using computers. As such it will be of great interest to all serious students and teachers of Shakespeare. Despite the complexity of its subject matter, the book is accessibly written with an undergraduate readership in mind."--Bloomsbury Publishing.Arden Shakespeare library.English languageEarly modernLanguage and languagesEnglish languageEarly modern.Language and languages.822.33Hope Jonathan1962-163826UtOrBLWUtOrBLWUkLoBPBOOK9910791154003321Shakespeare and language1750017UNINA