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 |
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Keywords
- shakespeare
- shakespeare's language
- linguistics
- history of grammar
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Hope, J. (2013). Not know my voice? Shakespeare corrected: english perfected – theories of language from the middle ages to modernity. In R. Morse, H. Cooper, & P. Holland (Eds.), Medieval Shakespeare: pasts and presents (pp. 78-97). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.