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Our understanding of words, and how they get their meanings, relies on a stable spelling system and dictionary defintions --- things which simply did not exist in the Renaissance. At that time, langua

A comparative reference guide to Shakespeare’s grammar, based on a complete revision of an extremely elderly but still much-cited volume, Abbott’s Shakespearean Grammar, first published in 1869 and st

This book introduces a method for determining the authorship of Renaissance plays. Based on the rapid rate of change in English grammar in the late sixteenth- and early-seventeenth centuries, socio-historical linguistic evidence allows us to distinguish the hands of Renaissance playwrights within play texts. The present study focuses on Shakespeare: his collaborations with Fletcher and Middleton; and the apocryphal plays. Among the plays examined are Henry VIII, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Macbeth, Pericles and Sir Thomas More. The findings of the book allow us to be more confident about the divisions of the collaborative plays, and confirm the status of Edward III as a strong candidate for inclusion in the canon. Using graphs to present statistical data in a readily comprehensible form, the book also contains a wealth of information about the history of the English language during a period of rapid and far-reaching change.

Using a wide range of twentieth-century literary prose Laura Wright and Jonathan Hope provide an `interactive' introduction to the techniques of stylistic analysis. Divided up into five sections; the

This edition of the complete poetry of Norman Cameron (1905-53) contains, in addition to the poems and a selection of translations, notably from Francois Villon, a valuable introduction by Jonathan Ba

Why do we continue to experience many of Shakespeare's dramatic characters as real people with personal histories, individual personalities, and psychological depth? What is it that makes Falstaff see