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Shakespeare and Language: Reason, Eloquence and Artifice in the Renaissance

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''Much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and not stand to: in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.'' Porter, Macbeth, II i. Why would Elizabethan audiences find Shakespeare''s Porter in Macbeth so funny? And what exactly is meant by  Read more...

Author(s): Jonathan Hope
Series: Arden Shakespeare library
Publisher: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
Year: 2010

Language: English
Pages: 264
Tags: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Language;English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700;Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616;English language -- Early modern;Language and languages

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CONTENTS
PREFACE
A NOTE ON TEXTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
LIST OF TABLES
Chapter One: Ideas about Language in the Renaissance
Chapter Two: Ideas about Language in Shakespeare 1: Discourse, Artifice and Silence
Chapter Three: Ideas about Language in Shakespeare 2: Words
Chapter Four: Fritters of English: Variation and Linguistic Judgement
Chapter Five: Agency and Uncertainty in Shakespeare's Syntax
Chapter Six The Language of Genre
AFTERWORD: TOKYO, MARCH 2010
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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