Shakespeare’s Language (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Frank Kermode
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Time of Work: 1594-1608
- Setting: England
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Literature, England or English people, Seventeenth century, English language, Shakespeare, William, or Shakespearean plays
- Locales: England
In the highly politicized, hyperspecialized, and careerist world of Anglo-American literary criticism, those critics who manage to command near universal respect and attention are few indeed. Sir Frank Kermode is one of them. Over the course of a long and productive literary life, Kermode has established himself as that rarest of creatures—a brilliant generalist. He has produced works of criticism in such diverse areas as Renaissance literature, Romanticism, the theory of fiction, the novel, and narrative theory—to name a few. Among his best known books are The Sense of an...
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