Shakespeare and Warwickshire Dialect

The article investigates whether Shakespeare used Warwickshire, Cotswold or Midlands dialect, focusing on the sources of recent claims by Bate, Kathman and Wood, most of which derive from early dialect dictionaries compiled by 18th and 19th century antiquarians. It determines that all of these claim...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rosalind Barber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2016-03-01
Series:Journal of Early Modern Studies
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Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-jems/article/view/7055