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Shakespeare’s Tragic Language / (Record no. 16261)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789004687790
Qualifying information (electronic book)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
Canceled/invalid ISBN 9789004723658
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Standard number or code 10.1163/9789004687790
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
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Classification number D410
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Classification number 910.82
Edition information 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Hammond, Paul,
Relator term author.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Shakespeare’s Tragic Language /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Paul Hammond.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Leiden ;
-- Boston :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Brill,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2025.
264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice ©2025
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Extent 1 online resource (165 pages) :
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Series statement Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Mini-Monographs in Medieval and Early Modern Studies ;
Volume/sequential designation 2
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Title 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.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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.
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Language note English
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Source of description note Description based on print version record.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Literature and Cultural Studies.
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Relationship information Print version:
Title Shakespeare’s Tragic Language.
Place, publisher, and date of publication Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.
International Standard Book Number 9789004723658
Record control number (DLC) 2024952268
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Mini-Monographs in Medieval and Early Modern Studies ;
Volume/sequential designation 2.
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Public note DOI:
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004687790">http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004687790</a>

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