Shakespeare's Grammar

Arden Shakespeare Library

by Jonathan Hope

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 still regarded by default as an essential component of Shakespeare research. This volume meets the identified need for an authoritative and systematic grammar of Shakespeare which takes account both of current linguistic developments and of the current state of knowledge about Early Modern English and enable editors and readers both to understand and to contextualise Shakespeare's use and manipulation of language, i.e. to locate it in the context of other writings in Early Modern English.`Should be an essential reference tool not only for Shakespeare editors but for university and school teachers' ' Professor Ernst Honigmann, editor of Arden 3 Othello'...should become part of every reader's, and certainly every teacher's, arsenal of central reference books' - Ruth Morse, Shakespeare Survey

Genres: Shakespeare

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Tk401 · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is downloadable for free - perhaps because it isn't worth much. Twenty-five percent in, and it's still all about defining the grammatical language in which it will, presumably, finally enlighten the reader about Shakespeare's grammar.

Want to learn Shakespeare's (or Elisabethan) grammar? Better to read the (notes in the) heavily annotated texts of Shakespeare (Arden, Oxford, Cambridge...) than waste your time with this academic exercise.