Shakespeare and Language

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Catherine M. S. Alexander
Cambridge University Press, 2004 M09 30 - 304 pages
This collection of essays considers the characteristics and unique qualities of Shakespeare's language, as well as the relationship between language and event, and the social, theatrical and literary function of language. A new introduction by Jonathan Hope explicates the differences between Shakespeare's language and our own, providing an appropriate theoretical and contextual framework.

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Shakespeare and Language
Catherine M. S. Alexander
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About the author (2004)

Catherine M. S. Alexander is a lecturer at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. She is editor of The Cambridge Shakespeare Library and co-editor of Shakespeare and Race (2001) and Shakespeare and Sexuality (2001).

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TitleShakespeare and Language
EditorCatherine M. S. Alexander
PublisherCambridge University Press, 2004
ISBN0521831393, 9780521831390
Length304 pages
  
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