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Multilingualism in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries /
Ben Jonson animates The Alchemist with an intersection of languages. In this moral satire, he captures the layered dialects, specialized vocabularies, and social desires of London and holds them up for view. This essay examines the play's negotiation of 'vertical' and 'horizontal...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2015.
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| Colección: | Benjamins current topics ;
73. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Ben Jonson animates The Alchemist with an intersection of languages. In this moral satire, he captures the layered dialects, specialized vocabularies, and social desires of London and holds them up for view. This essay examines the play's negotiation of 'vertical' and 'horizontal' modes of translation, also with reference to Shakespeare's treatment of overlapping languages, and to the use of multiple languages in a contemporary Catholic treatise on translation, A Discoverie of the Manifold Corruptions of the Holy Scriptures. Jonson's conclusion is that the friction between languages offers opp. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027268372 9027268371 9027242615 9789027242617 |
| ISSN: | 1874-0081 ; |