Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Introduction xiii
6. I. Shakespeare and the English Language
7. Shakespeare and the English Language 3
8. Shakespeare and the Tune of the Time 23
9. II. Aspects of Colloquial Elizabethan English
10. Elizabethan Colloquial English in the Falstaff Plays 37
11. The Social Background of Shakespeare's Malapropisms 71
12. Shakespeare's Salutations 101
13. Me, U, and Non-U 117
14. III. Studies in Vocabulary
15. (1) Some interpretations
16. Propertied as All the Tuned Spheres 133
17. The Spoken Language and the Dramatic Text 145
18. ‘Thou’ and ‘You’ in Shakespeare 153
19. “You” and “Thou” in Shakespeare's Richard III 163
20. An Aspect of Shakespeare's Dynamic Language 181
21. (2) Lexical innovation
22. Some Functions of Shakespearian Word-Formation 193
23. Shakespeare' Latinate Neologisms 207
24. Latin-Saxon Hybrids in Shakespeare and the Bible 229
25. (3) Shakespeare's use of specialised vocabularies
26. Shakespeare and the ‘Ordinary’ Word 237
27. Thieves' Cant in King Lear 245
28. Legal Language in Coriolanus 255
29. IV. Shakespeare and Elizabethan Grammar
30. (1) Studies in syntax
31. Sentence Structures in Colloquial Shakespearian English 265
32. Pronominal Case in Shakespearean Imperatives 301
33. The Perfect Auxiliaries in the Language of Shakespeare 309
34. May and Might in Shakespeare's English 319
35. Notes on the Use of the Ingressive Auxiliaries in the Works of William Shakespeare 329
36. Multiple Negation in Shakespeare 339
37. (2) Studies in inflection
38. Shakespeare's Use of eth and es Endings of Verbs in the First Folio 349
39. Shakespeare's Use of s Endings of the Verbs to do and to have in the First Folio 371
40. V. Studies in Rhetoric and Metre
41. Shakespeare's Use of Rhetoric 391
42. Hendiadys and Hamlet 407
43. The Iambic Pentameter Revisited 433
44. VI. Punctuation
45. Shakespearian Punctuation - A new beginning 445
46. Repunctuation as Interpretation in Editions of Shakespeare 455
47. VII. The Linguistic Context of Shakespearean Drama
48. Shakespeare's view of Language 473
49. The Poor Cat's Adage and other Shakespearean Proverbs in Elizabethan Grammar-School Education 489
50. Language in Love's Labour's Lost 499
51. Index 511