Shakespeare's English : language in the history plays

Author(s)

• Bolton, W. F. (Whitney French)

Bibliographic Information

Shakespeare's English : language in the history plays

W.F. Bolton

（The language library）

Blackwell, 1992

Note

Bibliography: p. [249]-258

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book looks at the richness of forms and content in Shakespeare's language through a study of his ten history plays. Each chapter has a double focus on a single category of language and on a single play or small group of related plays. Beginning with an assessment of the textual transmission of the play concerned, the chapters conclude by showing how the analysis of linguistic data has a bearing on critical interpretation. Throughout, the book makes use of computer analysis of the original folio and quarto texts and it includes a bibliography of work on Shakespeare's language.

Table of Contents

• The sound pattern of "Richard III"
• linguistic structure of "Richard II"
• the vocabulary of "King John"
• rhetoric in 1-3 "Henry VI"
• linguistic variety in 1-2 "Henry IV"
• pragmatics in "Henry VIII"
• language and nation in "Henry V"

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Details

• NCID: BA13476266
• ISBN:
  • 0631161473
• LCCN: 91014954
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford ; Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 265 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC8 : 932
  • DC20 : 822.33
• Subject Headings:
  • BLSH : Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00197893