Shakespeare's world of words /
"Was Shakespeare really the original genius he has appeared to be since the eighteenth century, a poet whose words came from nature itself? The contributors to this volume propose that Shakespeare was not the poet of nature, but rather that he is a genius of rewriting and re-creation, someone a...
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
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- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1. Well-Won Thrift
- Michael Bristol (McGill University) and Sara Coodin (University of Oklahoma)
- 2. Proper Names and Common Bodies: The Case of Cressida
- David Schalkwyk (Folger Shakespeare Library)
- 3. Antique/Antic: Archaism, Neologism and the Play of Shakespeare's Words in Love's Labor's Lost and 2 Henry IV
- Lucy Munro (University of Keele)
- 4. Learning to Color in Hamlet
- Miriam Jacobson (University of Georgia)
- 5. Recasting 'Angling' in The Winter's Tale
- J. A. Shea (Dawson College)
- 6. 'What may be and should be': Grammar Moods and the Invention of History in 1 Henry VI
- Lynne Magnusson (University of Toronto)
- 7. Othello and Theatrical Language
- Sarah Werner (Folger Shakespeare Library)
- 8. Slips of Wilderness: Verbal and Gestural Language in Measure for Measure
- Paul Yachnin and Patrick Neilson (McGill University)
- 9. 'Captious and Inteemable': Reading Comprehension in Shakespeare
- Meredith Evans (Concordia University)
- 10. 'Time is their master': Men and Meter in The Comedy of Errors
- Jennifer Roberts-Smith (University of Waterloo)
- Bibliography
- Index