A Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama

Vivian Salmon

Edwina Burness

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In recent years the language of Shakespearean drama has been described in a number of publications intended mainly for the undergraduate student or general reader, but the studies in academic journals to which they refer are not always easily accessible even though they are of great interest to the general reader and essential for the specialist. The purpose of this collection is therefore to bring together some of the most valuable of these studies which, in discussing various aspects of the language of the early 17th century as exemplified in Shakespearean drama, provide the reader with deeper insights into the meaning of Shakespearean text, often by reference to the social, literary and linguistic context of the time.

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 35] 1987. xx, 523 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 3 October 2011

https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.35

Table of Contents

Preface | p. ix

Acknowledgements | p. xi

Introduction | p. xiii

I. Shakespeare and the English Language

Shakespeare and the English Language

Randolph Quirk | p. 3

Shakespeare and the Tune of the Time

Bridget Cusack | p. 23

Elizabethan Colloquial English in the Falstaff Plays

Vivian Salmon | p. 37

The Social Background of Shakespeare's Malapropisms

Margaret Schlauch | p. 71

Shakespeare's Salutations: A Study in Stylistic Etiquette

Carol Replogle | p. 101

Me, U, and Non-U: Class Connotations of Two Shakespearean Idioms

Peter J. Gillett | p. 117

III. Studies in Vocabulary

(1) Some interpretations

Propertied as All the Tuned Spheres: Aspects of Shakespeare's Language

Robert D. Eagleson | p. 133

The Spoken Language and the Dramatic Text: Some Notes on the Interpretation of Shakespeare's Language

Hilda M. Hulme | p. 145

‘Thou’ and ‘You’ in Shakespeare: A Study in the Second Person Pronoun

Joan Mulholland | p. 153

“You” and “Thou” in Shakespeare's Richard III

Charles Barber | p. 163

An Aspect of Shakespeare's Dynamic Language: A Note on The Interpretation of King Lear III. VII.113: ‘He Childed as I Father'd!’

Kathleen Wales | p. 181

(2) Lexical innovation

Some Functions of Shakespearian Word-Formation

Vivian Salmon | p. 193

Shakespeare' Latinate Neologisms

Bryan A. Garner | p. 207

Latin-Saxon Hybrids in Shakespeare and the Bible

Bryan A. Garner | p. 229

(3) Shakespeare's use of specialised vocabularies

Shakespeare and the ‘Ordinary’ Word

D.S. Bland | p. 237

Thieves' Cant in King Lear

Timothy Musgrove | p. 245

Legal Language in Coriolanus

G. Thomas Tanselle and Florence W. Dunbar | p. 255

IV. Shakespeare and Elizabethan Grammar

(1) Studies in syntax

Sentence Structures in Colloquial Shakespearian English

Vivian Salmon | p. 265

Pronominal Case in Shakespearean Imperatives

Celia Millward | p. 301

The Perfect Auxiliaries in the Language of Shakespeare

Piotr Kakietek | p. 309

May and Might in Shakespeare's English

Piotr Kakietek | p. 319

Notes on the Use of the Ingressive Auxiliaries in the Works of William Shakespeare

Y.M. Biese | p. 329

Multiple Negation in Shakespeare

Rajendra Singh | p. 339

(2) Studies in inflection

Shakespeare's Use of eth and es Endings of Verbs in the First Folio

Estelle W. Taylor | p. 349

Shakespeare's Use of s Endings of the Verbs to do and to have in the First Folio

Estelle W. Taylor | p. 371

V. Studies in Rhetoric and Metre

Shakespeare's Use of Rhetoric

Brian Vickers | p. 391

Hendiadys and Hamlet

George T. Wright | p. 407

The Iambic Pentameter Revisited

Clayton Koelb | p. 433

VI. Punctuation

Shakespearian Punctuation - A new beginning

D.F. McKenzie | p. 445

Repunctuation as Interpretation in Editions of Shakespeare

Michael J. Warren | p. 455

VII. The Linguistic Context of Shakespearean Drama

Shakespeare's view of Language: An Historical Perspective

Margreta de Grazia | p. 473

The Poor Cat's Adage and other Shakespearean Proverbs in Elizabethan Grammar-School Education

Martin Orkin | p. 489

Language in Love's Labour's Lost

William Matthews | p. 499

Index | p. 511

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