| Description |
x, 392 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Edification from the Margins: Language, Culture, Context -- 1. Preposterous Estates, Preposterous Events: From Late to Early Shakespeare -- 2. The Bible and the Marketplace: The Comedy of Errors -- 3. "Rude Mechanicals": A Midsummer Night's Dream and Shakespearean Joinery -- 4. "Illegitimate Construction": Translation, Adultery, and Mechanical Reproduction in The Merry Wives of Windsor -- 5. "Conveyers Are You All": Translating, Conveying, Representing, and Seconding in the Histories and Hamlet -- 6. Dilation and Inflation: All's Well That Ends Well, Troilus and Cressida, and Shakespearean Increase -- 7. Othello and Hamlet: Spying, Discovery, Secret Faults |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-374) and index |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Literary style.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Political and social views.
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English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Semantics.
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English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Style.
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Language and culture -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Language and culture -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Marginality, Social, in literature.
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Plays on words.
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Rhetoric -- England.
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| LC no. |
95036472 |
| ISBN |
0226645843 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0226645851 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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