Shakespeare's world of words
By: edited by Paul Yachnin
Series: Arden shakespeare library
Publisher: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare; The Arden Shakespeare
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781472515292
Subjects: Rhetoric; Knowledge; Language; Literature and society; LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare; English language; Languages; History
Description: "Was Shakespeare really the original genius he has appeared to be since the eighteenth century, a poet whose words came from nature itself? The contributors to this volume propose that Shakespeare was not the poet of nature, but rather that he is a genius of rewriting and re-creation, someone able to generate a new language and new ways of seeing the world by orchestrating existing social and literary vocabularies. Each chapter in the volume begins with a key word or phrase from Shakespeare and builds toward a broader consideration of the social, poetic, and theatrical dimensions of his language. The chapters capture well the richness of Shakespeare's world of words by including discussions of biblical language, Latinity, philosophy of language and subjectivity, languages of commerce, criminality, history, and education, the gestural vocabulary of performance, as well as accounts of verbal modality and Shakespeare's metrics. An Afterword outlines a number of other important languages in Shakespeare, including those of law, news, and natural philosophy"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Acknowledgements; title: Notes on Contributors; title: Introduction; title: 1. Well-Won Thrift; title: Michael Bristol (McGill University) and Sara Coodin (University of Oklahoma); title: 2. Proper Names and Common Bodies: The Case of Cressida; title: David Schalkwyk (Folger Shakespeare Library); title: 3. Antique/Antic: Archaism, Neologism and the Play of Shakespeare's Words in Love's Labor's Lost and 2 Henry IV; title: Lucy Munro (University of Keele); title: 4. Learning to Color in Hamlet; title: Miriam Jacobson (University of Georgia); title: 5. Recasting 'Angling' in The Winter's Tale; title: J. A. Shea (Dawson College); title: 6. 'What may be and should be': Grammar Moods and the Invention of History in 1 Henry VI; title: Lynne Magnusson (University of Toronto); title: 7. Othello and Theatrical Language; title: Sarah Werner (Folger Shakespeare Library); title: 8. Slips of Wilderness: Verbal and Gestural Language in Measure for Measure; title: Paul Yachnin and Patrick Neilson (McGill University); title: 9. 'Captious and Inteemable': Reading Comprehension in Shakespeare; title: Meredith Evans (Concordia University); title: 10. 'Time is their master': Men and Meter in The Comedy of Errors; title: Jennifer Roberts-Smith (University of Waterloo); title: Bibliography; title: Index.