Shakespeare's Language
- ISBN-10
- 0374527741
- ISBN-13
- 9780374527747
- Series
- Shakespeare's Language
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-08-01
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Frank Kermode
Description
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. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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