A Grammar of Shakespeare's Language
A Grammar of Shakespeare's Language

Author: Norman Blake

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-03-14

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1350318353

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When you read Shakespeare or watch a performance of one of his plays, do you find yourself wondering what it was he actually meant? Do you consult modern editions of Shakespeare's plays only to find that your questions still remain unanswered? A Grammar of Shakespeare's Language, the first comprehensive grammar of Shakespeare's language for over one hundred years, will help you find out exactly what Shakespeare meant. Steering clear of linguistic jargon, Professor Blake provides a detailed analysis of Shakespeare's language. He includes accounts of the morphology and syntax of different parts of speech, as well as highlighting features such as concord, negation, repetition and ellipsis. He treats not only traditional features such as the make-up of clauses, but also how language is used in various forms of conversational exchange, such as forms of address, discourse markers, greetings and farewells. This book will help you to understand much that may have previously seemed difficult or incomprehensible, thus enhancing your enjoyment of his plays.

The Language of Shakespeare
The Language of Shakespeare

Author: Norman Blake

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 1989-06-22

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1349199915

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This book provides an accessible guide to the linguistic environment of Shakespeare, his use of vocabulary, grammar and sentence construction. Although Shakespeare's plays are familiar to us, the language in them is not always easy to understand or translate. Not only does Shakespeare use difficult and seemingly archaic words, but also constructs his sentences and makes use of grammar in a very different way to modern writers. This book is an introduction to the various aspects of the language of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Professor Blake has provided an accessible guide to the linguistic environment of Shakespeare, his use of vocabulary, grammar and sentence construction. By understanding Shakespeare's language students can avoid misinterpretation, recognise the possibilities of linguistic meaning and so fully appreciate Shakespeare's formidable artistry.

Montaigne and Shakespeare
Montaigne and Shakespeare

Author: Suzanne Ellrodt

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2024-06-04

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1526183722

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This book is not merely a study of Shakespeare’s debt to Montaigne. It traces the evolution of self-consciousness in literary, philosophical and religious writings from antiquity to the Renaissance and demonstrates that its early modern forms first appeared in the Essays and in Shakespearean drama. It shows, however, that, contrary to some postmodern assumptions, the early calling in question of the self did not lead to a negation of identity. Montaigne acknowledged the fairly stable nature of his personality and Shakespeare, as Dryden noted, maintained 'the constant conformity of each character to itself from its very first setting out in the Play quite to the End'. A similar evolution is traced in the progress from an objective to a subjective apprehension of time from Greek philosophy to early modern authors. A final chapter shows that the influence of scepticism on Montaigne and Shakespeare was counterbalanced by their reliance on permanent humanistic values.

SHAKESPEARE STUDIES SEMESTER-I CORE-102 BLOCK-1
SHAKESPEARE STUDIES SEMESTER-I CORE-102 BLOCK-1

Author: DDE NBU

Publisher: Directorate of Distance Education, University of North Bengal

Published: 2019-11-05

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13:

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This subject helps to understand the various aspects of the life and literary work of Shakespeare. This module comprises of seven units related to Shakespeare studies and about his plays with the insight of his life in this module.

Self-Speaking in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama
Self-Speaking in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama

Author: R. Hillman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1997-05-30

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0230372899

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This book documents the changing representation of subjectivity in Medieval and Early Modern English drama by intertextually exploring discourses of 'self-speaking', including soliloquy. Pre-modern ideas about language are combined with recent models of subject formation, especially Lacan's, to theorize and analyze the stage 'self' as a variable linguistic construct. Both the approach itself and the conclusions it generates significantly diverge from the standard New Historicist/Cultural Materialist narrative of subjectivity. Plays range from the Corpus Christi pageants to the Beaumont and Fletcher canon, with Shakespeare a recurrent focus and Hamlet, inevitably, the pivotal text.

William Shakespeare and John Donne
William Shakespeare and John Donne

Author: Angelika Zirker

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2019-02-08

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 1526133318

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William Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece and John Donne’s Holy Sonnets are read against the background of concepts of the soul during the early modern period. This approach provides new insights into concepts of interiority and performance as well as a new understanding of the soliloquy in both poetry and drama.

Shakespeare Survey
Shakespeare Survey

Author: Kenneth Muir

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-11-28

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780521523615

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The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.