[PDF.35hk] Shakespeare and the Arts of Language (Oxford Shakespeare Topics)

Shakespeare and the Arts of Language (Oxford Shakespeare Topics)

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 | #968589 in Books |  imusti |  2001-04-05 |  2001-04-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.10 x.50 x7.70l,.56 | File type: PDF | 224 pages

 | Oxford University Press USA

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Serious fun|By M. Carpenter|Good footnotes, well-done index, extensive list of suggested scholarly books on Shakespeare topics, tell you this is a serious book. The discussions of figures, meter, Elizabethan English give you an idea of how deeply McDonald will dig into Shakespeare. But you can easily forget this counts as an "I read a worthy book this week" candidate because it| ||"Shakespeare and the Arts of Language has its own challenges: how to write about Shakespeare's language in ways that don't seem either pedestrian or pretentious? McDonald's keen ear and shrewd eye for the specificity of wordplay, for the social relat

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 wha...

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