Written in a lucid, non-technical style, this book starts with the story of how the English language changed throughout the sixteenth century. Subsequent chapters define Shakespeare's main artistic tools and illustrate their poetic and theatrical contributions: Renaissance rhetoric, imagery and metaphor, blank verse, prose speech, and wordplay. The conclusion surveys Shakespeare's multiple and often conflicting ideas about language, encompassing both his enthusiasm at what words can do for us and his suspicion of what words can do to us.

Shakespeare and the Arts of Language (Oxford Shakespeare Topics)

Literature & Fiction

McDonald, Russ

Dramas & Plays

Oxford University Press

Written in a lucid, non-technical style, the book starts with the story of how the English language changed throughout the sixteenth century. Subsequent chapters define Shakespeare's main artistic tools and illustrate their poetic and theatrical contributions: Renaissance rhetoric, imagery and metaphor, blank verse, prose speech, and wordplay. The conclusion surveys Shakespeare's multiple and often conflicting ideas about language, encompassing both his enthusiasm at what words can do for us and his suspicion of what words can do to us.

British & Irish

Providing a unique combination of well-written, up-to-date background information and intriguing selections from primary documents, The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare introduces readers to the topics most important to the study of Shakespeare in their full historical and cultural context.

The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction With Documents (Bedford Shakespeare Series)

Reference

St.Martin's Press

Providing a unique combination of well-written, up-to-date background information and intriguing selections from primary documents,The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare introduces readers to the topics most important to the study of Shakespeare in their full historical and cultural context.

The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction With Documents

History & Criticism

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Presenting a distinct combination of well-written, up-to-date background information and intriguing selections from primary documents, The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare introduces you to the topics most important to the study of Shakespeare in their full historical and cultural context.

The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction with Documents

Bedford/St.Martin's

Gathering the 25 most frequently taught Shakespearian plays and augments, Bedford Shakespeare adds in rich historical and contextual materials to give you concrete entry points into the plays , creating opportunities for lively classroom discussion.

The Bedford Shakespeare

Orlin, Lena

Engaging, authoritative, and affordably priced, "The Bedford Glossary" is a comprehensive reference that clearly and accessibly defines hundreds of important literary and critical terms from classical times to the present, making them real and relevant to twenty-first century students through examples uniquely drawn from contemporary literary and popular culture.

Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms 3e & Bedford Companion to Shakespeare 2e & Tempest 2e

Murfin, Ross C.

Ray, Supryia M.

Shakespeare., William

THE BEDFORD COMPANION TO SHAKESPEARE

Bedford Books

Shakespeare's Late Style

When Shakespeare gave up tragedy around 1607 and turned to the new form we call romance or tragicomedy, he created a distinctive poetic idiom that often bewildered audiences and readers. The plays of this period, Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, as well as Shakespeare's part in the collaborations with John Fletcher (Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen), exhibit a challenging verse style - verbally condensed, metrically and syntactically sophisticated, both conversational and highly wrought. In Shakespeare's Late Style, McDonald anatomizes the components of this late style, illustrating in a series of topically organized chapters the contribution of such features as ellipsis, grammatical suspension, and various forms of repetition. Resisting the sentimentality that frequently attends discussion of an artist's 'late' period, Shakespeare's Late Style shows how the poetry of the last plays reveals their creator's ambivalent attitude towards art, language, men and women, the theatre, and his own professional career.

Cambridge University Press

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Books by McDonald, Russ

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Shakespeare and the Arts of Language (Oxford Shakespeare Topics)

Shakespeare and the Arts of Language (Oxford Shakespeare Topics)

The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction With Documents (Bedford Shakespeare Series)

The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction With Documents

The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction with Documents

The Bedford Shakespeare

Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms 3e & Bedford Companion to Shakespeare 2e & Tempest 2e

THE BEDFORD COMPANION TO SHAKESPEARE

Shakespeare's Late Style

Shakespeare's Late Style