Europe’s Languages on England’s Stages, 1590–1620
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Europe’s Languages on England’s Stages, 1590–1620

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Full Title

Europe\'s Languages on England\'s Stages, 1590–1620
Author(s)

Montgomery, Marianne, Ms
Edition
ISBN

9781409479376, 9781409422877
Publisher

Routledge
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Though representations of alien languages on the early modern stage have usually been read as mocking, xenophobic, or at the very least extremely anxious, listening closely to these languages in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Marianne Montgomery discerns a more complex reality. She argues instead that the drama of the early modern period holds up linguistic variety as a source of strength and offers playgoers a cosmopolitan engagement with the foreign that, while still sometimes anxious, complicates easy national distinctions.

The study surveys six of the European languages heard on London’s commercial stages during the three decades between 1590 and 1620

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