Shakespeare's Words

Author: Ben Crystal
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141941529
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1347

Book Description
A vital resource for scholars, students and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood by or are unknown to a modern audience. Displayed panels look at such areas of Shakespeare's language as greetings, swear-words and terms of address. Plot summaries are included for all Shakespeare's plays and on the facing page is a unique diagramatic representation of the relationships within each play.

Coined by Shakespeare

Author: Jeff McQuain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
A dictionary of terms that were first coined in William Shakespeare's plays. Each entry explains the source of the word, how the word is used throughout history, and where each word appears in Shakespeare's works.

Shakespeare's Language

Author: Frank Kermode
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374527741
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342

Book Description
In this magnum opus, Britain's most distinguished scholar of 16th-century and 17th-century literature restores Shakespeare's poetic language to its rightful primacy.

The Dictionary of Shakespeare Words

Author: Bookcaps
Publisher: BookCaps Study Guides
ISBN: 1610428943
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 359

Book Description
Do you ever find yourself reading Shakespeare and are completely lost because of words like Obeisance and Quiddity? This dictionary contains over 4500 Shakespearean words and their definition.

Pronouncing Shakespeare's Words

Author: Dale Coye
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136765042
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 359

Book Description
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Shakespeare's Language in Digital Media

Author: Janelle Jenstad
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317056108
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
The authors of this book ask how digital research tools are changing the ways in which practicing editors historicize Shakespeare's language. Scholars now encounter, interpret, and disseminate Shakespeare's language through an increasing variety of digital resources, including online editions such as the Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE), searchable lexical corpora such as the Early English Books Online-Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) or the Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) collections, high-quality digital facsimiles such as the Folger Shakespeare Library's Digital Image Collection, text visualization tools such as Voyant, apps for reading and editing on mobile devices, and more. What new insights do these tools offer about the ways Shakespeare's words made meaning in their own time? What kinds of historical or historicizing arguments can digital editions make about Shakespeare's language? A growing body of work in the digital humanities allows textual critics to explore new approaches to editing in digital environments, and enables language historians to ask and answer new questions about Shakespeare's words. The authors in this unique book explicitly bring together the two fields of textual criticism and language history in an exploration of the ways in which new tools are expanding our understanding of Early Modern English.

Pronouncing Shakespeare's Words

Author: Dale Coye
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136765034
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 358

Book Description
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A Dictionary of Shakespeare

Author: Stanley Wells
Publisher:
ISBN: 0192806386
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
Compiled by the general editor of The Oxford Shakespeare, and one of the best-known authorities on the playwright's works, this dictionary offers up-to-date information on all aspects of Shakespeare, both in his own time and in later ages. The wide-ranging entries cover Shakespeare's plays, as well as everything from famous actors, writers, and directors connected with Shakespeare, to theatres, historical figures and places of particular interest relating to his life and work. The dictionary also includes box features of passages on Shakespeare by other famous authors, from Dr Johnson and Jane Austin to Bernard Levin and Virginia Woolf. Ideal reference for the student, actor, or director, and fascinating browsing for the general reader interested in Shakespeare's life and work.

A Shakespeare Glossary

Author: Charles Talbut Onions
Publisher: Oxford : The Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description

Shakesplish

Author: Paula Blank
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503607585
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 297

Book Description
For all that we love and admire Shakespeare, he is not that easy to grasp. He may have written in Elizabethan English, but when we read him, we can't help but understand his words, metaphors, and syntax in relation to our own. Until now, explaining the powers and pleasures of the Bard's language has always meant returning it to its original linguistic and rhetorical contexts. Countless excellent studies situate his unusual gift for words in relation to the resources of the English of his day. They may mention the presumptions of modern readers, but their goal is to correct and invalidate any false impressions. Shakesplish is the first book devoted to our experience as modern readers of Early Modern English. Drawing on translation theory and linguistics, Paula Blank argues that for us, Shakespeare's language is a hybrid English composed of errors in comprehension—and that such errors enable, rather than hinder, some of the pleasures we take in his language. Investigating how and why it strikes us, by turns, as beautiful, funny, sexy, or smart, she shows how, far from being the fossilized remains of an older idiom, Shakespeare's English is also our own.