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9781904271697
Why would Elizabethan audiences find Shakespeare's character of the Fool so funny? And what exactly is meant by the name the 'Weird' Sisters in Macbeth? Jonathan Hope, in a comprehensive and fascinating study, looks at how the concept of words meant something entirely different to Elizabethan audiences than they do to us today.Hope, Valerie M. is the author of 'Shakespeare and Language : Reason, Eloquence and Artifice in the Renaissance', published 2010 under ISBN 9781904271697 and ISBN 1904271693.
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