Table of contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I. Shakespeare and the English Language
- Shakespeare and the English Language
- Shakespeare and the Tune of the Time
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- Elizabethan Colloquial English in the Falstaff Plays
- The Social Background of Shakespeare's Malapropisms
- Shakespeare's Salutations
- Me, U, and Non-U
- III. Studies in Vocabulary
- Some interpretations
- Propertied as All the Tuned Spheres
- The Spoken Language and the Dramatic Text
- 6;Thou' and 6;You' in Shakespeare
- 'You' and 'Thou' in Shakespeare's Richard III
- An Aspect of Shakespeare's Dynamic Language
- Lexical innovation
- Some Functions of Shakespearian Word-Formation
- Shakespeare' Latinate Neologisms
- Latin-Saxon Hybrids in Shakespeare and the Bible
- Shakespeare's use of specialised vocabularies
- Shakespeare and the 6;Ordinary' Word
- Thieves' Cant in King Lear
- Legal Language in Coriolanus
- IV. Shakespeare and Elizabethan Grammar
- Studies in syntax
- Sentence Structures in Colloquial Shakespearian English
- Pronominal Case in Shakespearean Imperatives
- The Perfect Auxiliaries in the Language of Shakespeare
- May and Might in Shakespeare's English
- Notes on the Use of the Ingressive Auxiliaries in the Works of William Shakespeare
- Multiple Negation in Shakespeare
- Studies in inflection
- Shakespeare's Use of eth and es Endings of Verbs in the First Folio
- Shakespeare's Use of s Endings of the Verbs to do and to have in the First Folio
- V. Studies in Rhetoric and Metre
- Shakespeare's Use of Rhetoric
- Hendiadys and Hamlet
- The Iambic Pentameter Revisited
- VI. Punctuation
- Shakespearian Punctuation - A new beginning
- Repunctuation as Interpretation in Editions of Shakespeare
- VII. The Linguistic Context of Shakespearean Drama
- Shakespeare's view of Language
- The Poor Cat's Adage and other Shakespearean Proverbs in Elizabethan Grammar-School Education
- Language in Love's Labour's Lost
- Index
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I. Shakespeare and the English Language
- Shakespeare and the English Language
- Shakespeare and the Tune of the Time
-
- Elizabethan Colloquial English in the Falstaff Plays
- The Social Background of Shakespeare's Malapropisms
- Shakespeare's Salutations
- Me, U, and Non-U
- III. Studies in Vocabulary
- Some interpretations
- Propertied as All the Tuned Spheres
- The Spoken Language and the Dramatic Text
- 6;Thou' and 6;You' in Shakespeare
- 'You' and 'Thou' in Shakespeare's Richard III
- An Aspect of Shakespeare's Dynamic Language
- Lexical innovation
- Some Functions of Shakespearian Word-Formation
- Shakespeare' Latinate Neologisms
- Latin-Saxon Hybrids in Shakespeare and the Bible
- Shakespeare's use of specialised vocabularies
- Shakespeare and the 6;Ordinary' Word
- Thieves' Cant in King Lear
- Legal Language in Coriolanus
- IV. Shakespeare and Elizabethan Grammar
- Studies in syntax
- Sentence Structures in Colloquial Shakespearian English
- Pronominal Case in Shakespearean Imperatives
- The Perfect Auxiliaries in the Language of Shakespeare
- May and Might in Shakespeare's English
- Notes on the Use of the Ingressive Auxiliaries in the Works of William Shakespeare
- Multiple Negation in Shakespeare
- Studies in inflection
- Shakespeare's Use of eth and es Endings of Verbs in the First Folio
- Shakespeare's Use of s Endings of the Verbs to do and to have in the First Folio
- V. Studies in Rhetoric and Metre
- Shakespeare's Use of Rhetoric
- Hendiadys and Hamlet
- The Iambic Pentameter Revisited
- VI. Punctuation
- Shakespearian Punctuation - A new beginning
- Repunctuation as Interpretation in Editions of Shakespeare
- VII. The Linguistic Context of Shakespearean Drama
- Shakespeare's view of Language
- The Poor Cat's Adage and other Shakespearean Proverbs in Elizabethan Grammar-School Education
- Language in Love's Labour's Lost
- Index