Standardising Shakespeare's Non-Standard Language
- Author / Editor
- Blake, N. F.
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