Shakespeare's Language
Language: English
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000
- Hardcover
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Plumbing the sweet mysteries of Shakespeare's "language," the author argues that the Bard's tragedies were probably difficult even for his contemporaries to understand and identifies a shift in Shakespeare's use of language around 1600. 590 6.25,"unit":"INCHES"},{"value":1.0,"unit":"INCHES"},{"value":9.25,"unit":"INCHES"}].
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- Title
- Shakespeare's Language
- Author
- Frank Kermode
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0374226369
- ISBN 13
- 9780374226367
- Item weight
- 590 grams
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"[T]he crowning action of [Kermode's] splid career of criticism . . ." --Richard Howard, "The American Scholar"
"[A] wonderful book, in which a master critic at the summit of his powers pays homage to a master playwright . . ." --Kiernan Ryan, "The Independant on Sunday"
. . .the honey of a lifetime's visits to the Shakespearean garden . . . Kermode proves himself Coleridge's worthy heir. "James Woods, The New Republic"
[T]he crowning action of [Kermode's] splid career of criticism . . . "Richard Howard, The American Scholar"
[A] wonderful book, in which a master critic at the summit of his powers pays homage to a master playwright . . . "Kiernan Ryan, The Independant on Sunday""
." . .the honey of a lifetime's visits to the Shakespearean garden . . . Kermode proves himself Coleridge's worthy heir." --James Woods, The New Republic
"[T]he crowning action of [Kermode's] splid career of criticism . . ." --Richard Howard, The American Scholar
"[A] wonderful book, in which a master critic at the summit of his powers pays homage to a master playwright . . ." --Kiernan Ryan, The Independant on Sunday
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