Shakespeare's Language : Perspectives Past and Present (Hardcover)

Part 1: Till 1950  1. The seventeenth century: 'true sublimity... but puffy style'  2. 'Retrieving original purity': the eighteenth century  3. Measuring and classifying: the nineteenth century  4. Making Shakespeare difficult: the early twentieth century  Part 2: 1950 On  5. From oxcart to computer: lexical studies  6. 'A richness of variant forms': grammar  7. Shakespearean 'rules of use': pragmatics  8. Original pronounciation: 'pronounced out of Ireland'?  9. 'Multifarious liberty and gay individualism': Shakespeare in print  10. Verse and prose: changing a 'sorry bed'  11. Rhetoric: 'maggot ostentation'?  12. Where the future lies  References