Major Reference Works

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 2 vols • c 2232 pages HB Pack • 9781350017955 • £495 / $725 The Arden Shakespeare Edited by Jonathan Culpeper, Lancaster University, UK, Andrew Hardie, Lancaster University, UK and Jane Demmen, Linguist These 2 volumes bring scholarship on Shakespeare's language into the 21st-century They offer the first comprehensive account of Shakespeare’s language to use computational methods derived from corpus linguistics Taking a dictionary format, Volume 1 covers A-M, Volume 2 N-Z Each focuses on the use and meanings of Shakespeare's most-commonly used words, both in the context of what he wrote and in the context in which he wrote Internal comparisons reveal how Shakespeare's language varies dynamically across his works, while external comparisons - including with a 380-million word corpus of wider English genres - show the stylistic flavour of words.

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