Shakespeare in the Marketplace of Words
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Shakespeare in the Marketplace of Words

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Shakespeare in the Marketplace of Words

About this book

Making innovative use of digital and library archives, this book explores how Shakespeare used language to interact with the verbal marketplace of early modern England. By also combining word history with book history, Jonathan P. Lamb demonstrates Shakespeare's response to the world of words around him, in and through the formal features of his works. In chapters that focus on particular rhetorical features in Richard II, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Hamlet, and Troilus and Cressida, Lamb argues that we can best understand Shakespeare's writing practice by scrutinizing how the formal features of his works circulated in an economy of imaginative writing. Shakespeare's interactions with this verbal market preceded and made possible his reputation as a playwright and dramatist. He was, in his time, a great buyer and seller of words.

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Table of contents

  1. Half-title
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright information
  4. Table of contents
  5. List of figures
  6. List of tables
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Nore on the Text
  9. 1 Shakespeare’s Writing Practice: Value, Exchange, and the Work of Form
  10. 2 The Stylistic Self in Richard II
  11. 3 Portia’s Laboratory: The Merchant of Venice and the New Science
  12. 4 The Medium and the Message: As You Like It
  13. 5 Hamlet’s Parenthesis
  14. 6 Shakespeare Rewords Chaucer: Troilus and Cressida
  15. Conclusion
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index