Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

ISBN-13: 9789027242617 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 215 str.

Dirk Delabastita; Ton Hoenselaars

Opis

No literary tradition in early modern Europe was as obsessed with the interaction between the native tongue and its dialectal variants, or with foreign languages and the phenomenon of translation, as English Renaissance drama. Originally published as a themed issue of English Text Construction 6:1 (2013), this carefully balanced collection of essays, now enhanced with a new Afterword, decisively demonstrates that Shakespeare and his colleagues were far more than just English authors and that their very Englishness can only be properly understood in a broader international and multilingual context. Showing a healthy disrespect for customary disciplinary borderlines, Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries brings together a wide range of scholarly traditions and vastly different types of expertise. While several papers venture into previously uncharted territory, others critically revisit some of the loci classici of early modern theatrical multilingualism such as Shakespeare s Henry V."