Foreign and Domestic in Love’s Labour’s Lost and The Shoemaker’s Holiday

Authors

  • Rui Carvalho Homem

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13133/2283-8759/16406

Abstract

This paper offers a discussion of linguistic diversity as a source of laughter in two early modern English comedies, respectively by William Shakespeare and Thomas Dekker. It focuses especially on the close relationship between the risible potential of some verbal practices and the playwrights’ dramatisation of tensions between a sense of the foreign and an assertive vernacular Englishness – at a moment in European cultural and political history that proved crucial for the emergence of commonplace perceptions of national identities. My reading of such tensions will benefit from insights provided by imagology, translation and comparative studies. 

Keywords: Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Shoemaker’s Holiday, Laughter, Vernacular Englishness, National identities 

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Published

2020-01-16

How to Cite

Carvalho Homem, R. (2020). Foreign and Domestic in Love’s Labour’s Lost and The Shoemaker’s Holiday. Memoria Di Shakespeare. A Journal of Shakespearean Studies, (6). https://doi.org/10.13133/2283-8759/16406

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Miscellany