Stylistics and Shakespeare's Language Transdisciplinary Approaches [Hardcover]

This innovative volume testifies to the current revived interest in Shakespeare's language and style and opens up new and captivating vistas of investigation. Transcending old boundaries between literary and linguistic studies, this engaging collaborative book comes up with an original array of theoretical approaches and new findings. The chapters in the collection capture a rich diversity of points of view and cover such fields as lexicography, versification, dramaturgy, rhetorical analyses, cognitive and computational corpus-based stylistic studies, offering a holistic vision of Shakespeare's uses of language. The perspective is deliberately broad, confronting ideas and visions at the intersection of various techniques of textual investigation. Such novel explorations of Shakespeare's multifarious artistry and amazing inventiveness in his use of language will cater for a broad range of readers, from undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars and researchers, to poetry and theatre lovers alike.

Mireille Ravassat is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language at Valenciennes University, France
Jonathan Culpeper is Professor of? English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK

List of contributors \ Introduction, Mireille Ravassat & Jonathan Culpeper \ 1. 'Strange deliveries': contextualising Shakespeare's first citations in the OED Giles Goodland \ 2. Shakespeare's vocabulary: did it dwarf all others? Ward E. Y. Elliott & Robert J. Valenza \ 3. A new kind of dictionary for Shakespeare's plays: an immodest proposal Jonathan Culpeper \ 4. 'If I break time': Shakespearean line endings on the page and the stage Peter Kanelos \ 5. Subject-verb inversion and iambic rhythm in Shakespeare's dramatic verse Richard Ingham and Michael Ingham \ 6. Shakespeare's 'short' pentameters and the rhythms of dramatic verse Peter Groves \ 7. Wholes and holes in the study of Shakespeare's wordplay Dirk Delabastita \ 8 'a thing inseparate / Divides more wider tlS,