‘If but as well I other accents borrow, that can my speech diffuse’: Multilingual perspectives on English Renaissance drama

Delabastita, Dirk; Hoenselaars, Ton

doi:10.1075/etc.6.1.01int

Article published In: Multilingualism in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries
Edited by Dirk Delabastita and Ton Hoenselaars
[English Text Construction 6:1] 2013
► pp. 1–16

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‘If but as well I other accents borrow, that can my speech diffuse’

Multilingual perspectives on English Renaissance drama

Dirk Delabastita | University of Namur

Ton Hoenselaars | ²Utrecht University

Published online: 5 April 2013

https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.6.1.01int

Keywords: Functions of multilingualism; English Renaissance drama; William Shakespeare; stage dialects; Englishness vs. foreignness; interdisciplinarity

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