Shakespeares Language
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (758 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 014028592X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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He was knighted in 1991. His previous books include THE GENESIS OF SECRECY, AN APPETITE FOR POETRY, THE SENSE OF AN ENDING and his autobiography, NOT ENTITLED. Frank Kermode has been Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English at University College London, King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge, and Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard.
His previous books include THE GENESIS OF SECRECY, AN APPETITE FOR POETRY, THE SENSE OF AN ENDING and his autobiography, NOT ENTITLED. . About the Author Frank Kermode has been Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English at University College London, King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge, and Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard. He was knighted in 1991
"Want to understand Shakespeare's language? This is the book to get!" according to Russell Watkins. The glossary not only gives a definition of the word as used in Shakespeare's time but also provides the exact line in which the the word is used. As useful as this is; even more interesting are the sections that explain the plots of the plays and even provide graphic representations of the relationships between the charcters. Other sections provide information on Shakespeare himself and how his use of language developed throughout his career.
They are often in language that is difficult to us, and must have been hard even for contemporaries. The true biography of Shakespeare - and the only one we really need to care about - is in the plays. How and why did Shakespeare's language develop as it did? Kermode argues that the resources of English underwent major change around 1600. The originality of Kermodes's writing, and the intelligence of his discussion, make this book a landmark.. Sir Frank Kermode, Britain's most distinguished literary critic, has been thinking about them all his life. This book is a distillation of that lifetime's thinking. The great English tragedies were all written in the first decade of the seventeenth century