Interlinguicity, internationality, and Shakespeare /
"Languages have become more mobile than ever before, producing translations, transplantations, and cohabitations of all kinds. The early modern period also witnessed profound linguistic transformation, but in very different ways. Interlinguicity, Internationality, and Shakespeare undoes the ill...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Montreal ; Ithaca :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2014]
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| Summary: | "Languages have become more mobile than ever before, producing translations, transplantations, and cohabitations of all kinds. The early modern period also witnessed profound linguistic transformation, but in very different ways. Interlinguicity, Internationality, and Shakespeare undoes the illusion that Shakespeare wrote in what we now think of as English. In a series of essays approaching Shakespeare from thought-provoking perspectives, contributors from history, performance criticism, and comparative literature look at "interlinguicity," the condition of being between languages, and "internationality," the condition of being between countries. Each essay focuses on local issues, such as community identification in the Netherlands of Shakespeare's time and the appropriation of Shakespeare in German literature in the nineteenth century, to suggest that Shakespeare never wrote "in" English because English was not then, nor is it now, an intact, knowable system. Many languages existed in sixteenth-century London, and English did not have clear limits. Interlinguicity, Internationality, and Shakespeare helps to explain the hybridity that Shakespeare embraced in all his writing"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (278 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780773596894 0773596895 9780773596900 0773596909 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |