Standardising Shakespeare's Non-Standard Language

Author / Editor
Blake, N. F.

Title
Standardising Shakespeare's Non-Standard Language

Published
Joseph B. Trahern, Jr., ed. Standardizing English: Essays in the History of Language Change, in Honor of John Hurt Fisher (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989), pp. 57-81.

Description
Illustrates the difficulties editors face in dealing with literary representations of regional or non-standard dialects, citing scribal variations of northern features of RvT before examining at greater length examples of dialects in Shakespeare's plays.

Alternative Title
Standardizing English: Essays in the History of Language Change, in Honor of John Hurt Fisher.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Language and Word Studies
Reeve and His Tale