Shakespeare in the Marketplace of Words

• Author(s): Jonathan P. Lamb,
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pages: 243
• ISBN_10: 1107193311
  ISBN_13: 9781107193314
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Drama / Shakespeare , Language Arts & Disciplines / General , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Shakespeare , Literary Criticism / Renaissance , Reference / Word Lists , Social Science / Popular Culture ,

Description:... Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Nore on the Text -- 1 Shakespeare's Writing Practice: Value, Exchange, and the Work of Form -- The Verbal Marketplace of Early Modern England -- The Work of Form -- Searching Shakespeare in a Digital Age -- or, Methods -- 2 The Stylistic Self in Richard II -- Know "My Selfe"--Kings Fall Apart -- Majesty a Subject -- Richard Alone -- 3 Portia's Laboratory: The Merchant of Venice and the New Science -- Brief Histories of "If" and the Scientific Hypothesis -- Enter Francis Bacon, Pursued by Boyle -- "If" and Shakespeare's Scene of Knowledge -- Contract versus Hypothesis -- The Casket Hypothesis -- Bassanio Retested -- The Shylock Experiment -- 4 The Medium and the Message: As You Like It -- A Multimedia Market -- A Bestiary of Forms -- Mingled Prose and Verse -- The Medium Is the Market -- Rosalind, Inc.: Too Big to Fail? -- 5 Hamlet's Parenthesis -- The Renaissance Parenthesis, the Parenthetical Renaissance -- Hamlet's Parentheses -- Hamlet's Parentheses -- 6 Shakespeare Rewords Chaucer: Troilus and Cressida -- The Filtered Well of Native English -- The Orgulous Words of Troilus and Cressida -- Words, Words, Mere Words -- Terms Unsquare -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index