Name: Shakespeare's Language By Keith Johnson (University of Lancaster, UK)
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Shakespeare's Language: Perspectives Past and Present by Keith Johnson (University of Lancaster, UK)

In Shakespeare's Language, Keith Johnson offers an overview of the rich and dynamic history of the reception and study of Shakespeare's language from his death right up to the present. Tracing a chronological history of Shakespeare's language, Keith Johnson also picks up on classic and contemporary themes, such as:

lexical and digital studies
original pronunciation
rhetoric
grammar.

The historical approach provides a comprehensive overview, plotting the attitudes towards Shakespeare's language, as well as a history of its study. This approach reveals how different cultural and literary trends have moulded these attitudes and reflects changing linguistic climates; the book also includes a chapter that looks to the future. Shakespeare's Language is therefore not only an essential guide to the language of Shakespeare, but it offers crucial insights to broader approaches to language as a whole.

About Keith Johnson (University of Lancaster, UK)

Keith Johnson is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and Language Education at the University of Lancaster, UK. He is the author of The History of Early English (2016) and Shakespeare's English (2013).

Part 1: Till 1950 1. The seventeenth century: 'true sublimity... but puffy style' 2. 'Retrieving original purity': the eighteenth century 3. Measuring and classifying: the nineteenth century 4. Making Shakespeare difficult: the early twentieth century Part 2: 1950 On 5. From oxcart to computer: lexical studies 6. 'A richness of variant forms': grammar 7. Shakespearean 'rules of use': pragmatics 8. Original pronounciation: 'pronounced out of Ireland'? 9. 'Multifarious liberty and gay individualism': Shakespeare in print 10. Verse and prose: changing a 'sorry bed' 11. Rhetoric: 'maggot ostentation'? 12. Where the future lies References

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Shakespeare's Language: Perspectives Past and Present by Keith Johnson (University of Lancaster, UK)

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Keith Johnson (University of Lancaster, UK)

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Taylor & Francis Ltd

Year published

2019-01-18

Number of pages

218

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Shakespeare's Language Keith Johnson (University of Lancaster, UK)

Shakespeare's Language by Keith Johnson (University of Lancaster, UK)

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Shakespeare's Language: Perspectives Past and Present by Keith Johnson (University of Lancaster, UK)

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