Introduction
1: Renaissance Articulations
2: Did Shakespeare Study Creative Writing?
3: Both Sides Now
4: Vernacular Values
5: Commonplace Shakespeare
6: The Origins of English
Afterword
Neil Rhodes is Professor of English Literature and Cultural History at the University of St Andrews.
`Review from previous edition learned, historically capacious,
thoughtful, concerned with challenging topics in several related
subdisciplines ... The range of his book is admirable and its lack
of dogmatism welcome'
Russ McDonald, Shakespeare Quarterly
`lively and accessible . . . his arguments offer a refreshing,
though not always unproblematic, revitalization of elements of
English studies that have lain moribund for decades, if not
centuries'
Leah S. Marcus, Modern Language Quarterly
`a lively, readable and thought-provoking book'
Richard Dutton, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
`full of stimulating, and sometimes provocative, ideas and
viewpoints and displays great skill in weaving together different
materials and lines of argument. . . . Lively, provocative, and
rich in ideas, Shakespeare and the Origins of English is a
stimulating contribution to the debate about contemporary, as well
as early modern, literary education.'
Fred Schurink, Notes and Queries
`Rhodes shows convincingly that Shakespeare's literary achievement
is most often based on his consistent breaking of accepted
Renaissance rules for writing. Rhodes' comments on the neoclassic
writers' response to Shakespeare are also very illuminating. . . .
offers much to engage the attention.'
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