Not know my voice? Shakespeare corrected: english perfected – theories of language from the middle ages to modernity

Jonathan Hope

Not know my voice? Shakespeare corrected: english perfected – theories of language from the middle ages to modernity

Jonathan Hope

English

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Abstract

Shakespeare inherited his understanding of 'language' from the Middle Ages. In the seventeenth century, our very different modern understanding is established. Yet Shakespeare, as a touchstone of modernity, has to be presented as sharing ourlinguistic conceptions. I argue that our treatment of Shakespeare, language, and modernity, is contradictory and highly problematic.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Medieval Shakespeare
Subtitle of host publication	pasts and presents
Editors	Ruth Morse, Helen Cooper, Peter Holland
Place of Publication	Cambridge
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Pages	78-97
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Print)	9781107016279
Publication status	Published - 28 Feb 2013

Keywords

shakespeare
shakespeare's language
linguistics
history of grammar

Access to Document

http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item7078381/?site_locale=en_GB

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