Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Language
- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Language
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I Basic Elements
- Part II Shaping Contexts
- Part III New Technologies
- 9 Digital Approaches to Shakespeare’s Language
- 10 Authorship, Computers, and Comparative Style
- 11 Reading in Time: Cognitive Dynamics and the Literary Experience of Shakespeare
- Part IV Contemporary Sites for Language Change
- Appendix Glossary of Rhetorical Figures
- Further Reading
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to…
10 - Authorship, Computers, and Comparative Style
from Part III - New Technologies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2019
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Language
- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Language
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I Basic Elements
- Part II Shaping Contexts
- Part III New Technologies
- 9 Digital Approaches to Shakespeare’s Language
- 10 Authorship, Computers, and Comparative Style
- 11 Reading in Time: Cognitive Dynamics and the Literary Experience of Shakespeare
- Part IV Contemporary Sites for Language Change
- Appendix Glossary of Rhetorical Figures
- Further Reading
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to…
Summary
The beginning of Macbeth’s soliloquy in Act 2, scene 1 is one of the most recognisable passages in the canon. ‘Is this a dagger which I see before me, / The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee’ (Mac. 2.1.33–34). The words may be familiar but they still have some secrets.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Language , pp. 168 - 188Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019