Shakespeare in the Marketplace of Words

Shakespeare in the Marketplace of Words
Author: Jonathan P. Lamb
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2017-07-06
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1107193311

This book explores the words, forms, and styles Shakespeare used to interact with the verbal marketplace of early modern England.

Shakespeare's Political and Economic Language

Shakespeare's Political and Economic Language
Author: Vivian Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2015-03-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1474216080

Shakespeare's plays are pervaded by political and economic words and concepts, not only in the histories and tragedies but also in the comedies and romances. The lexicon of political and economic language in Shakespeare does not consist merely of arcane terms whose shifting meanings require exposition, but includes an enormous number of relatively simple words which possess a structural significance in the configuration of meanings. Often operating by such means as puns, they open up a surprising number of possibilities. The dictionary reveals the conceptual nucleus of each term and explores the contexts in which it is embedded. The overlap between the political and economic dimensions of a word in Shakespeare's drama is particularly exciting as he is highly attuned to the interactions of these two spheres of human activity and their centrality in human affairs.

Drama and the Market in the Age of Shakespeare

Drama and the Market in the Age of Shakespeare
Author: Douglas Bruster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2005-01-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521607063

Douglas Bruster's provocative study of English Renaissance drama explores its links with Elizabethan and Jacobean economy and society, looking at the status of playwrights such as Shakespeare and the establishment of commercial theatres. He identifies in the drama a materialist vision which has its origins in the climate of uncertainty engendered by the rapidly expanding economy of London. His examples range from the economic importance of cuckoldry to the role of stage props as commodities, and the commercial significance of the Troy story in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, and he offers new ways of reading English Renaissance drama, by returning the theatre and the plays performed there, to its basis in the material world.

Shakespeare's Words

Shakespeare's Words
Author: Ben Crystal
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 1347
Release: 2004-04-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0141941529

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.

Seeing Shakespeare’s Style

Seeing Shakespeare’s Style
Author: Douglas Bruster
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2022-11-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000770273

Seeing Shakespeare’s Style offers new ways for readers to perceive Shakespeare and, by extension, literary texts generally. Organized as a series of studies of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, poetry, and prose, it looks at the inner functioning of language and form in works from all phases of this writer’s career. Because the very concept of literary style has dropped out of so many of our conversations about writing, we need new ways to understand how words, phrases, speeches, and genres in literature work. Responding to this need, this book shows how visual representations of writing can lead to a deeper understanding of language’s textures and effects. Starting with chapters that a beginning reader of Shakespeare can benefit from, its second half puts these tools to use in more in-depth examinations of Shakespeare’s language and style. Although focused on Shakespeare’s works, and the works of his contemporaries, this book provides tools for all readers of literature by defining style as material, graphic, and shaped by the various media in which all writers work.

Shakespeare Survey

Shakespeare Survey
Author: Stanley Wells
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2002-11-28
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521523851

The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.