Shakespeare's tragic language / by Paul Hammond.
| Author/creator | Hammond, Paul, 1953- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Leiden : Brill, [2025] |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | xxxvi, 120 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Mini-monographs in medieval and early modern studies ; Mini-monographs in medieval and early modern studies ; 2. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Tragic language in the early history plays : 1, 2, and 3 Henry VI, Richard III, and Richard II -- Tragic language in Shakespeare's Rome : Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, and Coriolanus -- Language and dissolution : Troilus and Cressida -- The tragedy of coercive language : Measure for measure -- From tragedy to romance : Cymbeline and The winter's tale -- Epilogue : tragic agency and tragic language. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Page 4 of cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| ISBN | 9789004723658 |
| ISBN | 900472365X paperback |
| ISBN | ebook |
| Standard identifier# | 10.1163/9789004687790 |
| Standard identifier# | CIPO000220635 |
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