Adam Zucker

Shakespeare Unlearned (eBook, PDF)

Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A light-stepping, illuminating study of words and characters in Shakespeare's plays that pertain to the idea of 'stupidity', drawing on a variety of sources to explore the limits of scholarly learnedness, and the vibrancy of unlearned perspectives on obscure words and difficult art.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198906780
• Artikelnr.: 72279218

Autorenporträt

Adam Zucker is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he has won the College of Humanities and Fine Arts Outstanding Teacher Award. He is the author of The Places of Wit in Early Modern English Comedy (2011) and the co-editor of essay collections Historical Affects and the Early Modern Theater (2015) and Localizing Caroline Drama: Politics and Economics of the Early Modern English Stage, 1625-1642 (2006). He is also co-editor of the journal English Literary Renaissance.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Textual Note
Prologue
Introduction: Toward a Philology of Stupidity
1: Twelfth Night and the Broken Jest
2: On Pedantry: Ben Jonson and the Invitation of Obscurity
3: Stage Pedants and Magisterial Nonsense
4: Twangling Instruments: The Soundwork of The Tempest
Acknowledgments
Works Cited
Index