LEADER 03115nam 2200469 450 001 9910824044103321 005 20230803043205.0 010 $a0-19-103719-2 010 $a0-19-151211-7 035 $a(CKB)4330000000038118 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5746780 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1661317 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1661317 035 $a(OCoLC)958577079 035 $a(EXLCZ)994330000000038118 100 $a20190620d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aShakespeare and the arts of language /$fRuss McDonald 210 1$aOxford :$cOxford University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (vi, 211 pages) 225 1 $aOxford Shakespeare Topics 311 $a0-19-871171-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [193]-206) and index. 330 $aOxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. Notes and a critical guide to further reading equip the interested reader with the means to broaden research. For the modern reader or playgoer, English as Shakespeare used it can seem alien and puzzling: vocabulary and grammar are in transition, pronouns and verb-forms can seem unfamiliar. Moreover, the conventions of poetic drama may also pose an impediment. Shakespeare and the Arts of Language provides a clear and helpful guide to the linguistic and rhetorical dimensions of the plays and poems. Written in a lucid, non-technical style, the book starts with the story of how the English language changed throughout the sixteenth century. Subsequent chapters define Shakespeare's main artistic tools and illustrate their poetic and theatrical contributions: Renaissance rhetoric, imagery and metaphor, blank verse, prose speech, and wordplay. The conclusion surveys Shakespeare's multiple and often conflicting ideas about language, encompassing both his enthusiasm at what words can do for usand his suspicion of what words can do to us. Throughout, Russ McDonald helps his readers to appreciate a play's concerns and theatrical effects by thinking about its language in relation to other writings of the period. He also emphasizes pleasure in the physical properties of Shakespeare's words: their colour, weight, and texture, the appeal of verbal patterns, and the irresistible power of intensified language. 410 0$aOxford Shakespeare Topics 606 $aEnglish language$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xStyle 606 $aEnglish language$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xRhetoric 615 0$aEnglish language$xStyle. 615 0$aEnglish language$xRhetoric. 676 $a822.33 700 $aMcDonald$b Russ$f1949-$0290707 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824044103321 996 $aShakespeare and the arts of language$9286927 997 $aUNINA