Shakespeare’s Tragic Language /
Hammond, Paul,
Shakespeare’s Tragic Language / Paul Hammond. - 1 online resource (165 pages) : illustrations. - Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025 Mini-Monographs in Medieval and Early Modern Studies ; 2 . - Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025. Mini-Monographs in Medieval and Early Modern Studies ; 2. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Texts and Abbreviations -- Glossary of Rhetorical Terms -- Prologue: Tragic Language -- 1 Tragic Language in the Early History Plays -- 2 Tragic Language in Shakespeare’s Rome -- 3 Language and Dissolution -- 4 The Tragedy of Coercive Language -- 5 From Tragedy to Romance -- Epilogue -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
In Shakespearean tragedy, language is used to bring about the downfall of characters, but there is also a tragedy which affects language itself through the decomposition of the fundamental concepts and mythologies which give identity to both societies and individuals. This book shows how in Shakespeare’s English history plays, Roman plays, tragicomedies, and romances, characters use language to manipulate and destroy others, but also imprison themselves in false reasoning. The misuse of language creates tragedies for individuals but also for society at large, as its conceptual building blocks lose their capacity to function. For Shakespeare, tragedy happens both to individuals and to cultures, and happens both in language and to language.
English
9789004687790
10.1163/9789004687790 DOI
History.
Literature and Cultural Studies.
D410
910.82
Shakespeare’s Tragic Language / Paul Hammond. - 1 online resource (165 pages) : illustrations. - Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025 Mini-Monographs in Medieval and Early Modern Studies ; 2 . - Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025. Mini-Monographs in Medieval and Early Modern Studies ; 2. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Texts and Abbreviations -- Glossary of Rhetorical Terms -- Prologue: Tragic Language -- 1 Tragic Language in the Early History Plays -- 2 Tragic Language in Shakespeare’s Rome -- 3 Language and Dissolution -- 4 The Tragedy of Coercive Language -- 5 From Tragedy to Romance -- Epilogue -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
In Shakespearean tragedy, language is used to bring about the downfall of characters, but there is also a tragedy which affects language itself through the decomposition of the fundamental concepts and mythologies which give identity to both societies and individuals. This book shows how in Shakespeare’s English history plays, Roman plays, tragicomedies, and romances, characters use language to manipulate and destroy others, but also imprison themselves in false reasoning. The misuse of language creates tragedies for individuals but also for society at large, as its conceptual building blocks lose their capacity to function. For Shakespeare, tragedy happens both to individuals and to cultures, and happens both in language and to language.
English
9789004687790
10.1163/9789004687790 DOI
History.
Literature and Cultural Studies.
D410
910.82