In:A Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama
Vivian Salmon and Edwina Burness
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 35] 1987
► pp. v–viii
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Table of contents
Prefaceix
Acknowledgementsxi
Introductionxiii
I. Shakespeare and the English Language
III. Studies in Vocabulary
(1) Some interpretations
The Spoken Language and the Dramatic Text: Some Notes on the Interpretation of Shakespeare's Language145
An Aspect of Shakespeare's Dynamic Language: A Note on The Interpretation of King Lear III. VII.113: ‘He Childed as I Father'd!’181
(2) Lexical innovation
(3) Shakespeare's use of specialised vocabularies
IV. Shakespeare and Elizabethan Grammar
(1) Studies in syntax
(2) Studies in inflection
Shakespeare's Use of s Endings of the Verbs to do and to have in the First Folio371
V. Studies in Rhetoric and Metre
VI. Punctuation
VII. The Linguistic Context of Shakespearean Drama
The Poor Cat's Adage and other Shakespearean Proverbs in Elizabethan Grammar-School Education489
Index511
