Description: In Shakespeare and Language, Jonathan Hope considers the ideas about language that separate us from Shakespeare.
Brief description: Dr Jonathan Hope is Reader in Literary Linguistics at Arizona State University, USA. and is author of Shakespeare's Grammar (Arden, 2003). He is a leading expert in his field and Linguistic Advisor to the Arden Shakespeare.
Review Quotes: "This book is nothing short of brilliant. It is bursting with new observations, pithy readings and sensitive analyses. One of Hope's skills is to show us that "language" is not separable from "ideas"; both are systems of representation. This is a book about words, conventions, artifice, mythology, innovation, reason, eloquence, silence, control, communication, selfhood, dialect, "late style" and much, much more. After reading Hope's book you will never read Shakespeare in the same way." --Professor Laurie Maguire, Magdalen College, Oxford