“The Mobile Shall Worship Thee”: Cant language in Thomas Shadwell’s The Squire of Alsatia (1688)
Fuente:
Redalyc
Salvato in:
| Autore principale: | |
|---|---|
| Natura: | Artículo científico |
| Lingua: | en |
| Pubblicazione: |
Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies
2016
|
| Soggetti: | |
| Accesso online: | |
| Tags: |
Aggiungi Tag
Nessun Tag, puoi essere il primo ad aggiungerne!!
|
| _version_ | 1876477661302226944 |
|---|---|
| author | Paula Schintu |
| author_facet | Paula Schintu |
| contents | “The Mobile Shall Worship Thee”: Cant language in Thomas Shadwell’s The Squire of Alsatia (1688) Paula Schintu Lengua y Literatura cant language Thomas Shadwell seventeenth century Canting lexicography The Squire of Alsatia The dramatic increase in criminality in sixteenth-century England was behind the emergence of a new type of literary work known as “rogue literature,” which dealt with the life and activities of beggars and lawbreakers. These rogues’ language, cant, became a major concern for many authors, who attached glossaries to their works for the benefit of those who were not familiar with it, marking the beginning of canting lexicography. It is within this framework that Thomas Shadwell (1640–1692) wrote his famous The Squire of Alsatia (1688), which is the focus of this study. This paper explores the use of cant language in this celebrated play from a linguistic and lexicographic point of view, arguing that its profuse employment of canting terminology, much of which is first documented in the play, made a significant contribution to studies in canting lexicography and proved its reliability as a historical portrait of seventeenth-century English cant. 2016 artículo científico 1135-7789 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=333549411008 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3335 SEDERI Yearbook application/pdf Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies SEDERI Yearbook (España) Num.26 |
| format | Artículo científico |
| id | redalyc_333549411008 |
| institution | Redalyc |
| language | en |
| publishDate | 2016 |
| publisher | Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies |
| spellingShingle | “The Mobile Shall Worship Thee”: Cant language in Thomas Shadwell’s The Squire of Alsatia (1688) Paula Schintu Lengua y Literatura cant language Thomas Shadwell seventeenth century Canting lexicography The Squire of Alsatia “The Mobile Shall Worship Thee”: Cant language in Thomas Shadwell’s The Squire of Alsatia (1688) Paula Schintu Lengua y Literatura cant language Thomas Shadwell seventeenth century Canting lexicography The Squire of Alsatia The dramatic increase in criminality in sixteenth-century England was behind the emergence of a new type of literary work known as “rogue literature,” which dealt with the life and activities of beggars and lawbreakers. These rogues’ language, cant, became a major concern for many authors, who attached glossaries to their works for the benefit of those who were not familiar with it, marking the beginning of canting lexicography. It is within this framework that Thomas Shadwell (1640–1692) wrote his famous The Squire of Alsatia (1688), which is the focus of this study. This paper explores the use of cant language in this celebrated play from a linguistic and lexicographic point of view, arguing that its profuse employment of canting terminology, much of which is first documented in the play, made a significant contribution to studies in canting lexicography and proved its reliability as a historical portrait of seventeenth-century English cant. 2016 artículo científico 1135-7789 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=333549411008 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3335 SEDERI Yearbook application/pdf Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies SEDERI Yearbook (España) Num.26 |
| title | “The Mobile Shall Worship Thee”: Cant language in Thomas Shadwell’s The Squire of Alsatia (1688) |
| topic | Lengua y Literatura cant language Thomas Shadwell seventeenth century Canting lexicography The Squire of Alsatia |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=333549411008 |