Shakespeare and the Shape of Words
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
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- 9781009479585
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- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 250 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 250 Pages
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Book description
Expanding our understanding of the moments which define Shakespeare's practice, this collection richly combines literary studies with analyses based on new advances in computational scholarship. Ranging widely across Shakespeare's dramatic writings, it invites us to pay close critical attention to the points at which words are shaped into something new or surprising. Bringing together a distinguished team of international scholars, the chapters show that Shakespeare's creative morphology is also an act of collective meaning-making, where what might be shaped through words – their creative potential – is transformed into something 'strange and admirable'.
Reviews
‘Shakespeare and the Shape of Words is a wonderfully rich assessment of Shakespeare as wordsmith. Offering a creative variety of approaches, essays move thoughtfully between small-scale attention to single words and large-scale critical interpretation, whether illuminating specific plays or wider cultural concepts.'
Lynne Magnusson - Professor of English, University of Toronto
‘This wonderful collection offers a new angle on Shakespeare's artistry, bringing linguistics, philology and etymology into lively conversation with the politics of race and gender. Recognising the shape of words reveals surprising cultural junctures, but also exposes inequity and friction in the early modern world. Words are materially workable and can be melted, cut, woven and repaired. As dynamic shape-shifters, they create radical change amongst and between the subjects who ply them.'
Katharine A. Craik - Professor of Early Modern Literature, Oxford Brookes University
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