Shakespeare's English: Language in the History Plays (Language Library)

This book looks at the richness of forms and content in Shakespeare's language through a study of his ten history plays. Each chapter has a double focus on a single category of language and on a single play or small group of related plays. Beginning with an assessment of the textual transmission of the play concerned, the chapters conclude by showing how the analysis of linguistic data has a bearing on critical interpretation. Throughout, the book makes use of computer analysis of the original folio and quarto texts and it includes a bibliography of work on Shakespeare's language.