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2 - Shakespeare’s Creativity with Words

from Part I - Basic Elements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2019

By
Alysia Kolentsis
Edited by
Lynne Magnusson  and
David Schalkwyk
Lynne Magnusson
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
David Schalkwyk
Affiliation:
Queen Mary University of London
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Summary

What is more Shakespearean, in the popular imagination, than creativity with words? Shakespeare’s mythic gift for lexical invention underlies his enduring reputation as godfather of English literature and language, a writer whose work has apparently given us ‘roughly one-tenth of all the most quotable utterances written or spoken in English since its inception’.

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Language , pp. 20 - 34
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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