Research Catalog

Title

Orthography in Shakespeare and Elizabethan drama; a study of colloquial contractions, elision, prosody, and punctuation, by A.C. Partridge.

Author

Partridge, A. C. (Astley Cooper)

Publication

Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press [1964]

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Details

Description

viii, 200 p.; 21 cm.

Subject

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Orthography and spelling
• 1500-1700
• English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism
• English language > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Orthography and spelling

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical footnotes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The meaning of 'orthography' and its use in Shakespearian textual criticism -- The rise of clipped forms of speech in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ; their importation into printed drama : Fulgen and Lucres, Ralph Doister, Gammer Gurton's needle -- Henry Porter and The two angry women of Abington -- Classification of contraction types and summary of conclusions -- The contractions and other characteristics of a manuscript play of the fifteen-nineties (John a Kent) -- The manuscript play Thomas of Woodstock -- The manuscript play Sir Thomas More : list of contractions in dramatic use by 1600 -- Shakespeare's apparent orthography in Venus and Adonis and some early quartos -- Shakespeare's versification and the editing of the First Folio -- Italian prosodists and types of dramatic elision in the English drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Syllabic variation in the Quarto and Folio texts of Shakespeare : its effect upon prosody in Hamlet and Troilus and Cressida -- Reading in plays of more than one authority for an original-spelling edition of Shakespeare : Othello ; Compositor analysis -- Editorial revision and corruption of Shakespeare's' First Folio texts : Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra -- Dramatic punctuation in Elizabethan drama -- The punctuation of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson -- Henry VIII : Linguistic criteria for the two styles apparent in the play
• Appendices: I. Chronology of Shakespeare's plays and poems ; II. Substantive texts of the Shakespeare canon, in probable order of composition ; III. Classification of First Folio texts, according to the probable nature of copy procured by Heminge and Condell ; IV. The hands of Sir Thomas More ; V. The orthographical characterization of Ralph Crane ; VI. New light on seventeenth-century pronunciation ; VII. Shakespeare and The two noble kinsmen ; VIII. The historical development of punctuation marks.

LCCN

^^^64017222^

OCLC

316379

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library