Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

Editors

Dirk Delabastita | University of Namur

Ton Hoenselaars | Utrecht University

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No literary tradition in early modern Europe was as obsessed with the interaction between the native tongue and its dialectal variants, or with ‘foreign’ languages and the phenomenon of ‘translation’, as English Renaissance drama. Originally published as a themed issue of English Text Construction 6:1 (2013), this carefully balanced collection of essays, now enhanced with a new Afterword, decisively demonstrates that Shakespeare and his colleagues were far more than just ‘English’ authors and that their very ‘Englishness’ can only be properly understood in a broader international and multilingual context. Showing a healthy disrespect for customary disciplinary borderlines, Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries brings together a wide range of scholarly traditions and vastly different types of expertise. While several papers venture into previously uncharted territory, others critically revisit some of the loci classici of early modern theatrical multilingualism such as Shakespeare’s Henry V.

[Benjamins Current Topics, 73] 2015. viii, 215 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 26 June 2015

https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.73

Table of Contents

Contributors | pp. vii–viii

Introduction

‘If but as well I other accents borrow, that can my speech diffuse’: Multilingual perspectives on English Renaissance drama

Dirk Delabastita and Ton Hoenselaars | pp. 1–16

Articles

Reading Early Modern literature through OED3: The loan word

Giles Goodland | pp. 17–40

Neighbor Hob and neighbor Lob: English dialect speakers on the Tudor stage

Lindsey Marie Simon-Jones | pp. 41–60

‘Fause Frenche Enough’: Kate’s French in Shakespeare’s Henry V

Anny Crunelle-Vanrigh | pp. 61–90

Female multilingualism in William Shakespeare and George Peele

Nely Keinänen | pp. 91–114

‘Have you the tongues?’: Translation, multilingualism and intercultural contact in The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Love’s Labour’s Lost

Liz Oakley-Brown | pp. 115–136

Social stratification and stylistic choices in Thomas Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday

Anita Auer and Marcel Withoos | pp. 137–160

Refashioning language in Richard Brome’s theatre: Comic multilingualism in action

Cristina Paravano | pp. 161–178

Interlinguicity and The Alchemist

Michael Saenger | pp. 179–202

Afterword

Double tongues

Marianne Montgomery | pp. 203–208

Index | pp. 209–216

“ Multilingualism in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries reinvigorates the area by bringing together approaches and perspectives from multiple disciplines (notably, literature, theatre and linguistics), whilst maintaining accessibility and offering intellectual reward for all readers.”

Jonathan Culpeper, Lancaster University

“This collection of essays celebrates what Shakespeare famously called the “great feast of languages”. It gathers together eight in-depth studies of intra- and interlingual ‘heteroglossia’, ‘code-switching’, ‘multilingualism’ or ‘interlinguicity’ and their politics. These do not only range widely across English Renaissance drama but also take in their stride a wide gamut of approaches from historical linguistics to poststructuralist translation theory. This is refreshing and makes us recognise in the early modern dialogue of languages the linguistic and cultural in-betweenness of our (post)modern literature.”

Manfred Pfister, Freie Universität Berlin

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Cited by two other publications

Abend-David, Dror

2020. Welcome to the Gap: The Cultural Gap of Translation at the Age of New Media. In Cultural Conceptualizations in Translation and Language Applications [Second Language Learning and Teaching, ], ► pp. 35 ff.

Valdeón, Roberto A.

2019. Translation, a Tudor political instrument. Target. International Journal of Translation Studies 31:2 ► pp. 189 ff.

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