Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-271) and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Michael Saenger -- Part One. The meaning of foreign languages. Shakespeare, Navarre, and continental history / Elizabeth Pentland -- "The Lady speaks in Welsh" : Henry IV, Part I as multilingual drama / Philip Schwyzer -- Where did the devil go? Religious polemic in the Dutch Reformation, 1580-1630 / Gary K. Waite -- Part Two. Difference within English. Loving and cherishing 'true English' : Shakespeare's twinomials / Scott Newstok -- Shakespeare's coining of words / Robert N. Watson -- Shakespeare's sound government : sound defects, polyglot sounds, and sounding out / Patricia Parker -- Continental sexuality and the auditory construction of early modern Englishness / Lauren Coker -- Introducing "Intrelinguistics" : Shakespeare and early/modern English / Paula Blank -- Part Three. Shakespeare and cultural voice. Monument, mountain, root : figures of translation, from Romeo to Julia / Brian Gingrich -- Shakespearean performance as a multilingual event : alterity, authenticity, liminality / Alexa Huang -- Afterword / James Loehlin.
Summary:
"Languages have become more mobile than ever before, producing translations, transplantations, and cohabitations of all kinds. The early modern period also witnessed profound linguistic transformation, but in very different ways. Interlinguicity, Internationality, and Shakespeare undoes the illusion that Shakespeare wrote in what we now think of as English. In a series of essays approaching Shakespeare from thought-provoking perspectives, contributors from history, performance criticism, and comparative literature look at "interlinguicity," the condition of being between languages, and "internationality," the condition of being between countries. Each essay focuses on local issues, such as community identification in the Netherlands of Shakespeare's time and the appropriation of Shakespeare in German literature in the nineteenth century, to suggest that Shakespeare never wrote "in" English because English was not then, nor is it now, an intact, knowable system. Many languages existed in sixteenth-century London, and English did not have clear limits. Interlinguicity, Internationality, and Shakespeare helps to explain the hybridity that Shakespeare embraced in all his writing."--Page 4 of cover.
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