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Shakespeare's English

Johnson, Keith, 1944-

Shakespeare's English a practical linguistic guide / [electronic resource] : Keith Johnson. - London : Routledge, 2014. - xv, 320 p. : ill.

First published 2013 by Pearson education limited.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Why, what, and how -- 2. Inventing words : the 'great feast of languages' -- 3. Using words : the fatal Cleopatras -- 4. Grammar : inside the bonnet -- 5. Pragmatics : Shakespeare as a foreign language -- 6. Rhetoric : 'sweet and honeyed sentences' -- 7. Verse and prose : iambic pentameters all the time? -- 8. Shakespeare on the page : 'wryting englysh treu' -- 9. Sounds : the 'tongue's sweet melody' -- 10. Our revels now are ended.




Mode of access: World Wide Web.

9781315833033 (e-book : PDF)


Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Language.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Literary style.


English language--Style.--Early modern, 1500-1700


Electronic books.