Shakespeare'S Language: Perspectives Past And Present - 9781138236172

The seventeenth century: "true sublimity ... but puffy style" -- "Retrieving original purity": The eighteenth century -- Measuring and classifying: the nineteenth century -- Making Shakespeare difficult: the early twentieth century -- From oxcart to computer: lexical studies -- "A richness of variant forms": grammar -- Shakespearean "rules of use": pragmatics -- Original pronunciation: "pronounced out of Ireland"? -- "Multifarious liberty and gay individualism": Shakespeare in print -- Verse and prose: changing a "sorry bed" -- Rhetoric: "maggot ostentation"? -- Where the future lies

• | Author: Keith Johnson
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jan 22, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 218 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138236179
• | ISBN-13: 9781138236172