Multilingualism in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries / edited by Dirk Delabastita, University of Namur and Ton Hoenselaars, Utrecht University.
Ben Jonson animates The Alchemist with an intersection of languages. In this moral satire, he captures the layered dialects, specialized vocabularies, and social desires of London and holds them up for view. This essay examines the play's negotiation of 'vertical' and 'horizontal...
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