Shakespeare Unlearned: Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity

by Adam Zucker

Shakespeare Unlearned dances along the borderline of sense and nonsense in early modern texts, revealing overlooked opportunities for understanding and shared community in words and ideas that might in the past have been considered too silly to matter much for serious scholarship. Each chapter pursues a self-knowing, gently ironic study of the lexicon and scripting of words and acts related to what has been called 'stupidity' in work by Shakespeare...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198906773
• ISBN13: 9780198906773
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"