Shakespeare's Language: Perspectives Past and Present

ISBN-13: 9781138236189 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 218 str.

Keith Johnson

Opis

In Shakespeare’s Language, Keith Johnson offers an overview of the rich and dynamic history of the reception and study of Shakespeare’s language from his death right up to the present.

Spis treści

Part 1: Till 1950  1. The seventeenth century: 'true sublimity... but puffy style'  2. 'Retrieving original purity': the eighteenth century  3. Measuring and classifying: the nineteenth century  4. Making Shakespeare difficult: the early twentieth century  Part 2: 1950 On  5. From oxcart to computer: lexical studies  6. 'A richness of variant forms': grammar  7. Shakespearean 'rules of use': pragmatics  8. Original pronounciation: 'pronounced out of Ireland'?  9. 'Multifarious liberty and gay individualism': Shakespeare in print  10. Verse and prose: changing a 'sorry bed'  11. Rhetoric: 'maggot ostentation'?  12. Where the future lies  References

O autorze

Keith Johnson is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and Language Education at the University of Lancaster, UK. He is the author of The History of Early English (2016) and Shakespeare’s English (2013).