Book contents
- The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare
- Frontispiece
- Frontispiece
- The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare
- Worlds of Shakespeare
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Part I Mapping Shakespeare’s World
- Part II Theater
- Part III Language
- Introduction
- 24 Early Modern English: The Language
- 25 Pronunciation and OP on the Modern Stage
- 26 Shakespeare’s Grammar
- 27 Shakespeare’s Forms of Address
- 28 Foreign Languages and Foreign-Language Learning
- 29 John Florio and the Early Modern Dictionary
- 30 Shakespeare Using Early Modern Translations
- 31 Dialects in the Plays of Shakespeare
- 32 Rhetoric
- 33 Figures of Speech (Including Puns)
- 34 Language: Key to Authorship
- 35 Shakespeare and the OED
- Part IV Science and Technology
- Part V Printing, Publishing, Textuality
- Part VI Visual Arts
- Part VII Popular Culture
- Part VIII High Culture
- Part IX England, 1560–1650
- Part X Religion
- Part XI Medicine
- Part XII The Historical William Shakespeare
- Part XIII Shakespeare’s Fellows
- Part XIV Shakespeare’s Early Reception (to 1660)
- Part XV International Encounters
- Part XVI Making the Scene
- Part XVII Shakespeare as Cultural Icon
- Part XVIII Shakespeare and Popular Culture
- Part XIX Translation
- Part XX Changing Technologies of Stage Performance
- Part XXI Audiences
- Part XXII Production History
- Part XXIII Printing and Reception History
- Part XXIV Shakespeare and the Book
- Part XXV Shakespeare and the Critics
- Part XXVI Shakespeare and the Performing Arts
- Part XXVII Shakespeare and the Visual Arts
- Part XXVIII Shakespeare and Media History
- Index
- References
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare
- Frontispiece
- Frontispiece
- The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare
- Worlds of Shakespeare
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Part I Mapping Shakespeare’s World
- Part II Theater
- Part III Language
- Introduction
- 24 Early Modern English: The Language
- 25 Pronunciation and OP on the Modern Stage
- 26 Shakespeare’s Grammar
- 27 Shakespeare’s Forms of Address
- 28 Foreign Languages and Foreign-Language Learning
- 29 John Florio and the Early Modern Dictionary
- 30 Shakespeare Using Early Modern Translations
- 31 Dialects in the Plays of Shakespeare
- 32 Rhetoric
- 33 Figures of Speech (Including Puns)
- 34 Language: Key to Authorship
- 35 Shakespeare and the OED
- Part IV Science and Technology
- Part V Printing, Publishing, Textuality
- Part VI Visual Arts
- Part VII Popular Culture
- Part VIII High Culture
- Part IX England, 1560–1650
- Part X Religion
- Part XI Medicine
- Part XII The Historical William Shakespeare
- Part XIII Shakespeare’s Fellows
- Part XIV Shakespeare’s Early Reception (to 1660)
- Part XV International Encounters
- Part XVI Making the Scene
- Part XVII Shakespeare as Cultural Icon
- Part XVIII Shakespeare and Popular Culture
- Part XIX Translation
- Part XX Changing Technologies of Stage Performance
- Part XXI Audiences
- Part XXII Production History
- Part XXIII Printing and Reception History
- Part XXIV Shakespeare and the Book
- Part XXV Shakespeare and the Critics
- Part XXVI Shakespeare and the Performing Arts
- Part XXVII Shakespeare and the Visual Arts
- Part XXVIII Shakespeare and Media History
- Index
- References
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- The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 161 - 172Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016
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Empson, William. The Complete Poems. Ed. Haffenden, John. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2000.Google Scholar
Kay, Christian, Roberts, Jane, Samuels, Michael, and Wotherspoon, Irené, eds. The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009.Google Scholar
Michigan Early Modern English Materials. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/memem/.Google Scholar
Further Reading
Alexander, Catherine M. S., ed. Shakespeare and Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.Google Scholar
Crystal, David. Think on My Words: Exploring Shakespeare’s Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Crystal, David, and Crystal, Ben. Shakespeare’s Words: A Glossary and Language Companion. London: Penguin, 2002. http://www.shakespeareswords.com.Google Scholar
Ronberg, Gert. A Way with Words: The Language of English Renaissance Literature. London: Edward Arnold, 2000.Google Scholar