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Shakespeare's Non-Standard English: A Dictionary of His Informal Language

Shakespeare's Non-Standard English: A Dictionary of His Informal Language

Blake, N. F.

Paperback

Series: Student Shakespeare Library

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0826491235
ISBN13: 9780826491237
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Aug 22 2006
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.28 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Most scholarly attention on Shakespeare's vocabulary has been directed towards his enrichment of the language through borrowing words from other languages and has thus concentrated on the more learned aspects of his vocabulary. However, the bulk of Shakespeare's output consists of plays and to make these appear lifelike he needed to employ a colloquial and informal style. This aspect of his work has been largely disregarded apart from his bawdy language. This dictionary includes all types of non-standard and informal language and lists all examples found in Shakespeare's works. These include dialect forms, colloquial forms, non-standard and variant forms, fashionable words and puns.

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