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PublisherDry Books, Incorporated, Paul
ISBN-101589880250
ISBN-139781589880252
eBay Product ID (ePID)46756477
Product Key Features
Book TitleShakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language
Number of Pages423 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2005
TopicShakespeare, Rhetoric, Linguistics / General
GenreLiterary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
AuthorSister Miriam Joseph
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight25 oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-023158
Reviews""The importance of this book is that it makes clear what we ought to mean when we call Shakespeare an artist in language. [N]ot until now have modern readers been told how immense a thing rhetoric was in the Renaissance--how immense in scope, and how endlessly detailed in its numerous parts. Nor has it been apparent how thoroughly Shakespeare was master of this rhetoric. Few books about him will ever be more exciting." --Mark Van Doren, New York Herald Tribune
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal822.3/3
Synopsis"This book manifests enormous learning and real wisdom in applying that erudition to contemporary readers." -Harold Bloom, Grammar-school students in Shakespeare's time were taught to recognize the two hundred figures of speech that Renaissance scholars had derived from Latin and Greek sources (from amphibolgia through onomatopoeia to zeugma). This knowledge was one element in their thorough grounding in the liberal arts of logic, grammar, and rhetoric, known as the trivium. In Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language Sister Miriam Joseph writes: "The extraordinary power, vitality, and richness of Shakespeare's language are due in part to his genius, in part to the fact that the unsettled linguistic forms of his age promoted to an unusual degree the spirit of creativeness, and in part to the theory of composition then prevailing. . . The purpose of this study is to present to the modern reader the general theory of composition current in Shakespeare's England." The author then lays out those figures of speech in simple, understandable patterns and explains each one with examples from Shakespeare. Her analysis of his plays and poems illustrates that the Bard knew more about rhetoric than perhaps anyone else! Originally published in 1947, this book is a classic., Grammar-school students in Shakespeare's time were taught to recognize the two hundred figures of speech that Renaissance scholars had derived from Latin and Greek sources (from amphibologia through onomatopoeia to zeugma). This knowledge was one element in their thorough grounding in the liberal arts of logic, grammar, and rhetoric, known as the trivium. In Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language Sister Miriam Joseph writes: "The extraordinary power, vitality, and richness of Shakespeare's language are due in part to his genius, in part to the fact that the unsettled linguistic forms of his age promoted to an unusual degree the spirit of creativeness, and in part to the theory of composition then prevailing . . . The purpose of this study is to present to the modern reader the general theory of composition current in Shakespeare's England." The author then lays out those figures of speech in simple, understandable patterns and explains each onewith examples from Shakespeare. Her analysis of his plays and poems illustrates that the Bard knew more about rhetoric than perhaps anyone else! Originally published in 1947, this book is a classic."Sister Miriam Joseph's Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language remains, after more than half a century, an immensely valuable aid to serious students of the greatest of all writers. The book manifests enormous learning and real wisdom in applying that erudition to the needs of contemporary readers."-Harold Bloom
LC Classification NumberPR3072.M5 2005
