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31 - Dialects in the Plays of Shakespeare

from Part III - Language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Paula Blank
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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broken Englishclass dialectdialecteducationforeign languagesFrenchgrammarHenry Vinkhorn languagethe King’s EnglishLatinlinguisticspronunciationregional dialectScottishsouthwestern Englishstage dialectthieves’ cantWelsh
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 219 - 223
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Further reading

Blake, N. F. Non-Standard Language in English Literature. London: Deutsch, 1981.Google Scholar
Blake, N. F. Shakespeare’s Non-Standard English: A Dictionary of His Informal Language. London: Continuum, 2004.Google Scholar
Blank, Paula. Broken English: Dialects and the Politics of Language in Renaissance Writings. London: Routledge, 1996.Google Scholar
Blank, Paula. “Languages of Early Modern Literature in Britain.” The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature. Ed. Loewenstein, David and Mueller, Janel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 141–69.Google Scholar
Coleman, Julie. A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries. Vol. 1: 1567–1784. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995.Google Scholar
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