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100 1 _aHammond, Paul,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aShakespeare’s Tragic Language /
_cPaul Hammond.
264 1 _aLeiden ;
_aBoston :
_bBrill,
_c2025.
264 4 _c©2025
300 _a1 online resource (165 pages) :
_billustrations.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aLate Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025
490 1 _aMini-Monographs in Medieval and Early Modern Studies ;
_v2
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _tPreface -- 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 _aIn 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.
546 _aEnglish
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aHistory.
650 0 _aLiterature and Cultural Studies.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tShakespeare’s Tragic Language.
_dLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.
_z9789004723658
_w(DLC) 2024952268
830 0 _aLate Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
830 0 _aMini-Monographs in Medieval and Early Modern Studies ;
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856 4 _zDOI:
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