Shakespeare's style, Shakespeare's England

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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