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TY - JOUR
T1 - ''Have you the tongues?''
T2 - Translation, Multilingualism and ''Intercultural Contact'' in The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Love's Labour's Lost
AU - Oakley-Brown, Liz
PY - 2013/4
Y1 - 2013/4
N2 - This essay suggests that, as plays produced in the wake of Henry VIII's break with Rome and the Protestant Reformation, two early Shakespearean comedies, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (c. 1590-91) and Love's Labour's Lost (c. 1594-95), engage with multilingualism's and translation's impact on early modern English identities in striking ways. While these late-sixteenth-century texts are products of a cultural mind-set grappling with the vicissitudes of Englishness via the dramatization of deftly layered social strata and linguistic differences, ultimately, I argue that they simultaneously anticipate cultural accord.
AB - This essay suggests that, as plays produced in the wake of Henry VIII's break with Rome and the Protestant Reformation, two early Shakespearean comedies, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (c. 1590-91) and Love's Labour's Lost (c. 1594-95), engage with multilingualism's and translation's impact on early modern English identities in striking ways. While these late-sixteenth-century texts are products of a cultural mind-set grappling with the vicissitudes of Englishness via the dramatization of deftly layered social strata and linguistic differences, ultimately, I argue that they simultaneously anticipate cultural accord.
KW - Shakespearean comedy
KW - the Reformation
KW - identity politics in Elizabethan England
KW - social exclusion
KW - friendship
U2 - 10.1075/etc.6.1.06oak
DO - 10.1075/etc.6.1.06oak
M3 - Journal article
VL - 6
SP - 112
EP - 133
JO - English Text Construction
JF - English Text Construction
SN - 1874-8767
IS - 1
ER -