A Shakespearian Grammar: An Attempt to Illustrate Some of the Differences Between Elizabethan and Modern English

by E A Abbott

Overview

This is a reprint of the enlarged third edition (1870) of this indispensable guide to every idiomatic usage that readers find in Shakespeare, with additional references to Jonson, Bacon, and other Elizabethan writers. It includes sections on grammar, prosody, metaphor, and simile. This title is cited and recommended by the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781410216779
Publisher:	University Press of the Pacific
Publication date:	09/16/2004
Pages:	536
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.33(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface to Third Edition	xxi
	Preface to First Edition	1
	Introduction	5
	Grammar
	Adjectives	1
	Adverbs	23
	Article	79
	Conjunctions	95
	Prepositions	138
	Pronouns, Personal	205
	Pronouns, Relative and Interrogative	244
	Relatival Constructions	275
	Verbs, Forms
	Verbs, Auxiliary	298
	Verbs, Inflections
	Verbs, Moods
	Participles and Verbals
	Ellipses	382
	Irregularities	406
	Compound Words	428
	Prefixes	436
	Suffixes	443
	Prosody
	The ordinary verse	452
	The "pause-accent"	453
	Emphatic accents	453a
	The "pause-extra-syllable"	454
	Unaccented monosyllables	456
	Accented monosyllables	457
	Two "pause-extra-syllables"	458
	Written Contractions
	Contractions in pronunciation not expressed in writing	462
	Variable Syllables	474
	Lengthening of Words	477
	Verses with four accents assigned to witches, fairies, &c.	504
	Short lines, why introduced	511
	Interjectional lines	512
	The amphibious section	513
	A verse continued, spite of interruptions	514
	Rhyme, when used	515
	Prose, when used	515a
	Simile and Metaphor	430
	Notes and Questions	440
	Index to the Quotations	453
	Verbal Index	501