Shakespeare and the Origins of English

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Oxford University Press, 2004 - 260
What existed before there was a subject known as English? How did English eventually come about? Focusing specifically on Shakespeare's role in the origins of the subject, Rhodes addresses the evolution of English from the early modern period up to the late eighteenth century. He deals with the kinds of literary and educational practices that would have formed Shakespeare's experience and shaped his work, and traces the origins of English in certain aspects of the educational regime that existed before English literature became an established part of the curriculum. Rhodes then presents Shakespeare both as a product of Renaissance rhetorical teaching and as an agent of the transformation of rhetoric in the eighteenth century into the subject that emerged as the modern study of English.

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INTRODUCTION
1
1 RENAISSANCE ARTICULATIONS
5
2 DID SHAKESPEARE STUDY CREATIVE WRITING?
45
3 BOTH SIDES NOW
85
4 VERNACULAR VALUES
118
5 COMMONPLACE SHAKESPEARE
149
6 THE ORIGINS OF ENGLISH
189
AFTERWORD
227
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
233
INDEX
255
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Neil Rhodes is a Professor of English Literature and Cultural History at the University of St Andrews.

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