Hauptseminar Shakespeare's Language

The aim of the present seminar will be to examine the language used in the plays of Shakespeare with a view of understanding how it developed, how it is structured and how it relates to English in the Elizabethan period. The seminar will look in detail at the state of the English language at Shakespeare's time and at how he manipulated it for the purposes of poetic expression, especially on the level of vocabulary. Another central aspect of the seminar will be the question of language change at the time of Shakespeare and the extent to which this can be traced within his plays. Literature on Shakespeare's language Blake, Norman 1983. Shakespeare's language. An introduction. (London: Macmillan). Bolton, W. F. 1992. Shakespeare's English. Language in the History Plays. (London: André Deutsch). Brook, George Leslie 1976. The Language of Shakespeare. (London: André Deutsch). Crystal, David 2005. Pronouncing Shakespeare. The Globe Experiment. Cambridge: University Press. Folkerth, Wes 2002. The Sound of Shakespeare. London: Routledge. Hope, Jonathan 1995. The Authorship of Shakespeare's Plays. Cambridge: University Press. Hope, Jonathan 2003. Shakespeare's Grammar. London: Thomson Learning. Kermode, Frank 2000. Shakespeare's Language. Harmondsworth: Penguin. Kökeritz, Helge 1953. Shakespeare's Pronunciation. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. McQuain, Jeffrey and Stanley Malless 1998. Coined by Shakespeare. Words and Meanings First Penned by the Bard. (Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster). Onions, C. T. 1986. A Shakespeare glossary. Rev. by Robert D. Eagleson. (Oxford: University Press). Salmon, Vivian and Edwina Burness (eds) 1987. A reader in the language of Shakespearean drama. (Amsterdam: John Benjamins). Scheler, Manfred (1982) Shakespeares Englisch. Eine sprachwissenschaftliche Einführung [Shakespeare's English. A linguistic introduction]. (Berlin: Erich Schmidt). Anglistik Universität Duisburg-Essen SS 2011 Master, Master Professor Hickey Raymond