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Written in a lucid, non-technical style, the book starts with the story of how the English language changed throughout the sixteenth century. Subsequent chapters define Shakespeare's main artistic tools and illustrate their poetic and theatrical contributions: Renaissance rhetoric, imagery and metaphor, blank verse, prose speech, and wordplay. The conclusion surveys Shakespeare's multiple and often conflicting ideas about language, encompassing both his enthusiasm at what words can do for us and his suspicion of what words can do to us.
- Sales Rank: #990818 in Books
- Published on: 2001-04-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 5.10" h x .50" w x 7.70" l, .56 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 224 pages
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"Shakespeare and the Arts of Language has its own challenges: how to write about Shakespeare's language in ways that don't seem either pedestrian or pretentious? McDonald's keen ear and shrewd eye for the specificity of wordplay, for the social relations embedded in spoken language, for figure and meter, for the power of prose, and indeed for the limits of language in the physical forms of theater are, however, more than up to the challenge."--Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
"Makes a difficult subject enlivening and thought-provoking. [McDonald] achieves the difficult task of making linguistic dissection seem meaningful to undergraduates...excellent."-Renaissance Quarterly
"In Oxford University Press's excellent series on Shakespeare Topics, Michael Taylor in Shakespeare Criticism in the Twentieth Century and Russ McDonald in Shakespeare and the Arts of Language offer admirable scholarship presented with welcome readability. This series ought to be in every library."--Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance
"The book is not only a solid and thorough treatment of its subject; it is often imaginative and original. The style is perspicuous, and the arrangement and treatment of Shakespeare's mastery of language are sensible and effective.... If someone wishes to require supplemental reading of a Shakespeare class, this would be time and twenty dollars well spent."--Ben Jonson Journal
"This book is a helpful guide to Shakespeare's language, pitched at students and the general public rather than scholars (but offering wonderful footnotes for the scholar-teachers using it with their classes).... A thorough, insightful, informed book."--Sixteenth Century Journal
About the Author
Russ McDonald is at University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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29 of 34 people found the following review helpful.
Absolutely indispensible
By A Customer
This book is one of the few books of Shakespearean scholarship that I have read which I find completely, unequivocably indispensible. If you have ever been interested in just how Will Shakespeare does what he does with language, Prof. McDonald's book is the one to read. Thorough but not overlong, it is actually a speedy read.
As for spotchboy, there is absolutely NO evidence for an authorship controversy. This "identity question" was created by bored, insipid people who have a penchant for conspiracy theories. Prof. McDonald ignores that question because there is no issue to discuss, and the book deals with the arts of language. I wish the self-proclaimed "anti-Stratfordians" would realize the arts of scholarship. But it is refreshing to see that even they can realize how great a piece of scholarship this is.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Pardon the pun
By Jon Chambers
There is something rather quaint, nowadays, about focusing on Shakespeare's language. Attending to such things as rhetoric and metre might seem a bit passé. Aware of this, Russ McDonald defends his study of Shakespeare's verbal arts by claiming that language is central to an understanding and appreciation of his work. Refreshingly, he also takes pains to emphasise that the clever use of such language features gives rise to reading pleasure. The process of unlocking metaphors is not arid and academic, in his view, but fundamentally rewarding.
This is by no means the same old guide to Shakespeare's language in new clothing. Although it occasionally elucidates those technical terms so beloved of Greek rhetoricians and Elizabethan theorists, and although it is often in broad agreement with the conventional view of the playwright's development (that alliterative patterns gradually become more subtle, and that end-stopped lines increasingly give way to enjambment, for example), this study presents an illuminating discussion of language, and it enhances and complements recent trends in various disciplines.
Perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than in the chapter on puns: 'Double Talk'. Far from constituting Shakespeare's Achilles heel, as Dr Johnson so famously argued, the much-maligned pun is seen as an integral part of his fascination for doubles - in fact, for 'likeness in difference' in all its manifestations, where puns take their place alongside twins, sets of brothers (Old Hamlet/Claudius; Edgar/Edmund), double plots, parallel circumstances etc. However annoying they might be to some, puns have a function, McDonald argues. Socially, they provide a subversive but safe means for characters to defy their superiors, by deliberately misconstruing and redirecting meaning; politically, and more seriously, wordplay becomes the battlefield on which substitution of meaning anticipates the substitution of monarch; and structurally, they embody what he calls 'the unreliability of the verbal sign'. To MacDonald, the pun is nothing less than a trope that allows for intellectual sparring, demonstrates the vulnerability of language and equips Shakespeare with the mental gymnasium he needs in order to exercise his imagination.
A thoroughly convincing and highly readable contribution to the field of Shakespeare's language that extends beyond language and mere labels. For McDonald, 'Words are considerably more than words'. Ideal both for the non-expert (who doesn't mind having obscure meanings glossed in quotations and alliteration highlighted typographically) and for the more serious student. Vital reading.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Serious fun
By M. Carpenter
Good footnotes, well-done index, extensive list of suggested scholarly books on Shakespeare topics, tell you this is a serious book. The discussions of figures, meter, Elizabethan English give you an idea of how deeply McDonald will dig into Shakespeare. But you can easily forget this counts as an "I read a worthy book this week" candidate because it is so enjoyable. Many of us love Shakespeare, but few people write about Shakesepeare's methods so lightly and insightfully. You will come away with some new thoughts and insights and an overpowering urge to go read a few plays again.
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