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Wide-ranging, accessible study of the power of insult across Shakespeare dramatic oeuvre. With its incisive, historically-informed close-readings and attention to the cultural resonance of different forms of insult, this work sheds light on the role and significance of insult within Shakespeare’s plays and in Elizabethan culture more broadly. * Cathy Shrank, University of Sheffield, UK * A sweeping, comprehensive and masterful work, which breaks new ground by bringing the full force of pragmatics, philology, and historical inquiry to bear on the issue of Shakespeare’s language of abuse, thereby recovering lost meanings, unlocking hidden contradictions, and restoring forgotten connections between the realm of injurious words and the realms of courtship, dueling, the market and the law … Eye-opening, informative and entertaining, The Anatomy of Insults should be required reading for anyone interested in Shakespeare’s language of insults, and ultimately, in Shakespeare’s language. * Miranda *

Wide-ranging, accessible study of the power of insult across Shakespeare dramatic oeuvre. With its incisive, historically-informed close-readings and attention to the cultural resonance of different forms of insult, this work sheds light on the role and significance of insult within Shakespeare's plays and in Elizabethan culture more broadly. * Cathy Shrank, University of Sheffield, UK *

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Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin is Professor in the English department of the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 and a member of the IRCL, Institute for Research on the Renaissance, the Neo-Classical Age and the Enlightenment (UMR 5186 CNRS), France.

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