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offers a comprehensive overview of various aspects of and approaches to language in the plays of Shakespeare ... a useful introduction to figurative language, rhetoric, and wordplay. Modern Language Review Russ McDonald ... offers an initiation into Shakespeare's English ... Like a good musician leading us beyond merely humming the tunes, he helps us hear Shakespearean unclarity, revealing just how expression in late Shakespeare sometimes transcends ordinary verbal meaning ... particularly recommendable. Ruth Morse, Times Literary Supplement Oxford University Press offer a mix of engagingly written introductions to a variety of Topics intended largely for undergraduates. Each author has clearly been reading and listening to the most recent scholarship, but they wear their learning lightly. Ruth Morse, Times Literary Supplement

`the book is a historically careful and analytically imaginative picture of Shakespeare's attitude to and use of the rhetorical tools at his disposal. The arugument is especially interesting and helpful as it follows what McDonald judges to be a kind of rhetorical progress.' Claire Preston, Times Higher Education Supplement, 1 June 2001 `Helped by judiciously chosen examples from Shakespeare's works and elsewhere, which he glosses sensibly and expertly (and with just enough context to comfort non-experts), McDonald has managed to produce a work that is clear to follow and yet rarely over-simplified ... for the unfamiliar or nervous the clear-sighted McDonald is an excellent and reassuring guide.' Daniel Hahn, Around the Globe, April 2001

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