Shakespeare and the problem of style / Jeff Dolven -- Shakespeare's creativity with words / Alysia Kolentsis -- The performative power of Shakespeare's language / David Schalkwyk -- Verse and metre / Oliver Morgan -- The dynamics of Shakespearean dialogue / Lynne Magnusson -- Figures of speech at work / Ruth Morse -- Approaching Shakespeare through rhetoric / Peter Mack -- Shakespeare and social languages / James Siemon -- Digital approaches to Shakespeare's language / Jonathan Hope -- Authorship, computers, and comparative style / Hugh Craig -- Reading in time : cognitive dynamics and the literary experience of Shakespeare / Amy Cook And Seth Frey -- Writing for actors : language that cues performance / Carol Chillington Rutter -- Language and translation / Dirk Delabastita -- Popular culture and Shakespeare's language / Douglas M. Lanier.
Summary:
"The power of Shakespeare's complex language - his linguistic playfulness, poetic diction and dramatic dialogue - inspires and challenges students, teachers, actors and theatre-goers across the globe. It has iconic status and enormous resonance, even as language change and the distance of time render it more opaque and difficult. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Language provides important contexts for understanding Shakespeare's experiments with language and offers accessible approaches to engaging with it directly and pleasurably. Incorporating both practical analysis and exemplary readings of Shakespearean passages, it covers elements of style, metre, speech action and dialogue; examines the shaping contexts of rhetorical education and social language; test-drives newly available digital methodologies and technologies; and considers Shakespeare's language in relation to performance, translation and popular culture. The Companion explains the present state of understanding while identifying opportunities for fresh discovery, leaving students equipped to ask productive questions and try out innovative methods"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.