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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Rhodes, Neil, 1953- Shakespeare and the origins of English. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004 (DLC) 2004301812 |
Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Neil Rhodes |
ISBN: | 019924572X 9780199245727 9780191715259 0191715255 9786611190842 6611190848 |
OCLC Number: | 271201009 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 260 pages) |
Contents: | 1. Renaissance articulations -- 1.1. Language as living speech -- 1.2. Hamlet's media studies -- 2. Did Shakespeare study creative writing? -- 2.1. School ties -- 2.2. Writing against the academy -- 3. Both sides now -- 3.1. Speech-writing -- 3.2. Problems at work -- 3.3. Shakespeare's controversial plots -- 4. Vernacular values -- 4.1. Native feet -- 4.2. Shakespeare the barbarian -- 5. Commonplace Shakespeare -- 5.1. Shakespeare's computer -- 5.2. Resources for English -- 6. The origins of English -- 6.1. From rhetoric to criticism -- 6.2. Shakespeare and the language of the heart. |
Responsibility: | Neil Rhodes. |
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Review from previous edition learned, historically capacious, thoughtful, concerned with challenging topics in several related subdisciplines ... The range of his book is admirable and its lack of dogmatism welcome * Russ McDonald, Shakespeare Quarterly * lively and accessible . . . his arguments offer a refreshing, though not always unproblematic, revitalization of elements of English studies that have lain moribund for decades, if not centuries * Leah S. Marcus, Modern Language Quarterly * a lively, readable and thought-provoking book * Richard Dutton, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 * full of stimulating, and sometimes provocative, ideas and viewpoints and displays great skill in weaving together different materials and lines of argument. . . . Lively, provocative, and rich in ideas, Shakespeare and the Origins of English is a stimulating contribution to the debate about contemporary, as well as early modern, literary education. * Fred Schurink, Notes and Queries * Read more...


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- Language and languages.
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