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24 - Early Modern English: The Language

from Part III - Language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Matti Rissanen
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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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 172 - 178
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Brook, G. L. The Language of Shakespeare. London: André Deutsch, 1976.Google Scholar
Cawdrey, Robert. A Table Alphabeticall of Hard Usual English Words. London: 1604.Google Scholar
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Further reading

Barber, Charles. Early Modern English. 1976. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1997.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blake, N. F. A Grammar of Shakespeare’s Language. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blake, N. F. Shakespeare’s Language: An Introduction. London: Macmillan, 1983.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. 1995. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.Google Scholar
Crystal, David. Pronouncing Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Crystal, David, and Crystal, Ben. Shakespeare’s Words. London: Penguin, 2002.Google Scholar
Franz, Wilhelm. Die Sprache Shakespeares in Vers und Prosa [1898–99]. 4th ed. Halle/Saale: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1939.Google Scholar
Görlach, Manfred. Introduction to Early Modern English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hope, Jonathan. Shakespeare’s Grammar. London: Thomson Learning, 2003.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kökeritz, Helge. Shakespeare’s Pronunciation. New Haven: Yale UP, 1953.Google Scholar
Kökeritz, Helge, and Prouty, Charles Taylor. Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. New Haven: Yale UP, 1954.Google Scholar
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