The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Language. Lynne Magnusson and David Schalkwyk, eds. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xiv + 298 pp. $24.99

Jonathan Hope's essay is the first of three in part 3, “New Technologies,” and offers an accessible how-to guide for performing text analysis using open-source tools, sample assignments, case studies, and an annotated list of digital resources useful for practitioners at any level of expertise....

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Published inRenaissance quarterly Vol. 74; no. 1; pp. 353 - 355
Main Author Bennett, Kristen Abbott
Format Journal Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.04.2021
Subjects
Conversation
Cultural factors
English literature
Essays
Exegesis & hermeneutics
Language
Popular culture
Renaissance period
Rhetoric
Schalkwyk, David
Shakespeare plays
Text analysis
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Summary:Jonathan Hope's essay is the first of three in part 3, “New Technologies,” and offers an accessible how-to guide for performing text analysis using open-source tools, sample assignments, case studies, and an annotated list of digital resources useful for practitioners at any level of expertise. Next, Hugh Craig effectively demonstrates how one may put distant- and close-reading practices in conversation to examine variations and distinctions emerging throughout Shakespeare's language within the context of his claim that there is “no essential universal Shakespeare style” (185). Douglas M. Lanier deftly draws this collection to a close by reflecting on Shakespeare's language in the context of popular culture, suggesting that one view popular performances and readings of Shakespeare as alternative hermeneutics for recognizing how those outside the “Shakespeare industry process the poet's language” (261).
ISSN:0034-4338
1935-0236
DOI:10.1017/rqx.2020.398