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Shakespeare's Language by Frank Kermode (2001, Trade Paperback)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780374527747
- Book Title
- Shakespeare's Language
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
- Topic
- Shakespeare
- Item Weight
- 15.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374527741
ISBN-13
9780374527747
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1808500
Product Key Features
Book Title
Shakespeare's Language
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2001
Topic
Shakespeare
Genre
Literary Criticism
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
15.5 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
". . .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, . . .the honey of a lifetime's visits to the Shakespearean garden . . . Kermode proves himself Coleridge's worthy heir., [A] wonderful book, in which a master critic at the summit of his powers pays homage to a master playwright . . .
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
822.3/3
Synopsis
A magnum opus from our finest interpreter of The Bard The true biography of Shakespeare--and the only one we need to care about--is in his plays. Frank Kermode, Britain's most distinguished scholar of sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century literature, has been thinking about Shakespeare's plays all his life. This book is a distillation of that lifetime of thinking.The finest tragedies written in English were all composed in the first decade of the seventeenth century, and it is generally accepted that the best ones were Shakespeare's. Their language is often difficult, and it must have been hard even for contemporaries to understand. How did this language develop? How did it happen that Shakespeare's audience could appreciate Hamlet at the beginning of the decade and Coriolanus near the end of it? In this long-awaited work, Kermode argues that something extraordinary started to happen to Shakespeare's language at a date close to 1600, and he sets out to explore the nature and consequences of the dynamic transformation that followed. For it is in the magnificent, suggestive power of the poetic language itself that audiences have always found meaning and value. The originality of Kermode's argument, the elegance and humor of his prose, and the intelligence of his discussion make this a landmark in Shakespearean studies.
LC Classification Number
PR3072.K47
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