Shakespeare and Language: Reason, Eloquence and Artifice in the Renaissance

''This book is nothing short of brilliant. It is bursting with new observations, pithy readings and sensitive analyses. One of Hope''s skills is to show us that ''language'' is not separable from ''ideas''; both are systems of representation. This is a book about words, conventions, artifice, mythology, innovation, reason, eloquence, silence, control, communication, selfhood, dialect, ''late style...