- Title
- Shakespeare's style, Shakespeare's England
- Creator
- Craig, Hugh
- Relation
- Fashioning England and the English: Literature, Nation, Gender p. 71-95
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92126-6_4
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- The language of Shakespeare’s comedy lags rather than leads in the markers of historical change in the forms of English. Speeches echo the contemporary, commonplace, material world less than plays by Shakespeare’s peers. The comedy data suggests that if Shakespeare does concern himself with an emerging English nationhood, it is through the medium of an archaic style of dialogue. Patterns of language use fit better with displacement from contemporary England and with an orientation to the past and a broader European tradition. Elements of this created dramatic world could be applied to the ideas, events and personalities of contemporary England, but they start as representations of other times and places, in a language with resonances of a disappearing rather than an emerging world.
- Subject
- Shakespeare; comedy; Elizabethan era; language
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1404248
- Identifier
- uon:35299
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783319921259
- Language
- eng
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