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Shakespeare and language : reason, eloquence and artifice in the Renaissance /

Why would Elizabethan audiences find Shakespeare's Porter in Macbeth so funny? And what exactly is meant by the name the 'Weird' Sisters? Jonathan Hope, in a comprehensive and fascinating study, looks at how the concept of words meant something entirely different to Elizabethan audien...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hope, Jonathan, 1962-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Arden Shakespeare/Methuen Drama : A & C Black Publishers, 2010.
Series:Arden Shakespeare library.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Language.
English language > Early modern, 1500-1700.

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