Shakespeare's Language Bibliography
ENG 2530Y: Shakespeare's Language (1996)
Professor Ian Lancashire
Department of English
University of Toronto
June 1996
URL:
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~ian/index.html
1. Shakespeare
- Baldwin, Thomas W. 1944. William Shakspere's Small Latine & Lesse Greeke.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 2 vols. PR 2903 B33 ROBA
- Blake, N. F. 1983. Shakespeare's Language: An Introduction. London: Macmillan. PR
3075 B55 1983 ROBA
- Bolton, W. F. 1992. Shakespeare's English: Language in the History Plays. Oxford:
Blackwell. PR 3072 B64 1992 ROBA
- Brainerd, B. 1975. "Pronouns and Genre in Shakespeare's Drama." Computers and the
Humanities 13.1: 3-16. AZ 105 C6 ROBA
- Brook, George Leslie. 1976. The Language of Shakespeare. London: Deutsch. PR 3072 B68
ROBA
- Dessen, Alan C. 1995. Recovering Shakespeare's Theatrical Vocabulary. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. PR 3091 D47 1995X ROBA
- Donawerth, Jane. 1984. Shakespeare and the Sixteenth-century Study of Language. Urbana:
University of Illinois Press. PR 3069 L3D6 1984 ROBA
- Elliott, Martin. 1988. Shakespeare's Invention of Othello: A Study of Early Modern English.
Basingstoke: Macmillan. PR 2829 E64 1988 ROBA
- Evans, G. B., ed. 1974. The Riverside Shakespeare. Boston. PR 2754 E9 1974 ROBA
- Fabian, Bernhard, and Kurt Tetzeli von Rosador, eds. 1987. Shakespeare, Text, Language,
Criticism: Essays in Honour of Marvin Spevack. Hildesheim and New York: Olms-Weidmann. PR
2976 S3389 1987 ROBA
- Foster, Donald W. 1989. Elegy by W. S.: A Study in Attribution. Newark: University of
Delaware Press. PR 2199 F863F67 1989 ROBA
- Hill, W. J., and C. J. Öaut;ttchen. 1991. Shakespeare's Insults. Cambridge: Mainsail
Press.
- Hope, Jonathan. 1994. The Authorship of Shakespeare's Plays: A Socio-linguistic Study.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. PR 2937 H65 1994 ROBA
- Houston, John Porter. 1988. Shakespearean Sentences: A Study in Style and Syntax. Baton
Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1988. PR 3078 H68 1988 ROBA
- Hulme, Hilda M. 1962. Exploitations in Shakespeare's Language: Some Problems of Lexical
Meaning in the Dramatic Text. London: Longmans. PR 3072 H8 ROBA
- Hussey, S. S. 1992. The Literary Language of Shakespeare. 2nd edn. London and New York:
Longman, 1992. PR 3072 H86 1992 SCAR; PR 3072 H86 ROBA (1982)
- Jackson, M. P. 1979. Studies in Attribution: Middleton and Shakespeare. Salzburg, 1979.
PR 2718 A9J3 ROBA
- Partridge, A. C. 1964. Orthography in Shakespeare and Elizabethan Drama: A Study of
Colloquial Contractions. London: E. Arnold. PE 833 P3 ROBA
- Plimpton, George Arthur. 1933. The Education of Shakespeare: Illustrated from the Schoolbooks
in Use in his Time. London: Oxford University Press. PR 2903 P6 VUCR
- Schoenbaum, S. 1975. William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life. Oxford: Clarendon Press
and Scolar Press. PR 2893 S3 ROBA
- Shakespeare, William. 1609. Sonnets, 1609. Menston, Eng.: Scolar Press, 1970. PR 2848 A1
1609A ERIN
- Smith, M. W. A. 1988. "The Authorship of Acts I and II of Pericles: A New Approach Using First
Words of Speeches." Computers and the Humanities 22.1: 23-41.
- Spevack, M. 1973. The Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare. Cambridge, Mass. PR 2892
S683 1973 ROBA
- Spurgeon, C. F. E. 1935. Shakespeare's Imagery and What It Tells Us. Cambridge.
- Spevack, Marvin. 1968-70. A Complete and Systematic Concordance to the Works of
Shakespeare. 6 vols. Hildesheim: Olms. PR 2892 S6 ROBA
- Wells, S., and Taylor, G.,eds. 1989. W. Shakespeare. The Complete Works: Electronic Edition for
the IBM PC. Oxford.
- Wells, Stanley, and Gary Taylor, with John Jowett and William Montgomery. 1987. William
Shakespeare: A Textual Companion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2. Early Modern English
a. General
- Alston, R. C. 1965-. A Bibliography of the English Language from the Invention of Printing to
the Year 1800. Leeds. Z 2015 A2A4 GENR
- Arn, Mary-Jo, Hanneke Wirtjes, and Hans Jensen, eds. 1985. Historical and Editorial Studies in
Medieval & Early Modern English for Johan Gerritsen. Groningen: Wolters-Noordhoff. PE
525 H57 1985 ROBA
- Barber, Charles L. 1976. Early Modern English. London: Deutsch. PE 1081 B3 ROBA
- Corns, Thomas N. 1990. Milton's Language. Oxford: Blackwell. PR 3596 C67 1990 ROBA
- Göaut;rlach, Manfred. 1991. Introduction to Early Modern English. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. PE 821 G613 1991 TRIN and VUPT
- Jones, Richard Foster. 1953. The Triumph of the English Language. Stanford: Stanford
University Press. PE 1073 J65 ROBA
- Kastovsky, Dieter, ed. 1994. Studies in Early Modern English. Berlin and New York: M. De
Gruyter, 1994. PE 821 S78 1994X
- Lass, R., ed. 1995. The Cambridge History of the English Language. Vol. 3: 1476-1776.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming.
- Ronberg, Gert. 1992. A Way with Words: the Language of English Renaissance Literature.
London: Edward Arnold. PE 877 R66 1992 ROBA
- Salmon, V., and E. Burness. 1987. Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama.
Amsterdam: Benjamins. PR 3072 R4 1987 ROBA
- Salmon, Vivian. 1979. The Study of Language in 17th-century England. Amsterdam:
Benjamins. P 81 G7S24 ROBA
b. Dictionaries
- Bailey, Richard W., ed. 1978. Early Modern English: Additions and Antedatings to the Record of
English Vocabulary 1475-1700. New York: Georg Olms Verlag. PE 891 E3 ROBA
- Bailey, R. 1980. "Progress toward a Dictionary of Early Modern English 1475-1700." In W.
Pijnenburg and F. de Tollenaare, eds. Proceedings of the Second International Roundtable on
Historical Lexicography. Dordrecht: Foris.
- Blount, Thomas. 1656. Glossographia. Wing B 3334. 5 editions 1659-81. Scolar Press
facsimile (1969). PE 1670 A2B57 1656A ROBA. A & A facsimile (1972).
- Bullokar, John. 1616. An English Expositor: teaching the interpretation of the hardest words in
our language. STC 4083. 19 editions 1621-1775. Scolar Press facsimile (1967). PE 1670
A2B7 1616A ROBA. Anglistica & America facsimile (1971). PE 1680 A2 B77.
- Cawdrey, Robert. 1604. A Table Alphabeticall, conteyning and teaching the understanding of
hard usuall English wordes. STC 4884 (4 editions: 1609, 1613, 1617). Da Capo Press
facsimile edition (1970). PE 891 C3 1604ab ROBA. Scholars' Facsimile (1966). PE 891 C3 1604a ROBA.
- Cockeram, Henry. 1623. English Dictionarie: or, an interpreter of hard English words.
STC 5461 (12 editions: 1626, 1631, 1632, 1637, 1639, 1642, 1647, 1650, 1651, 1658, 1670). Old-
spelling edition by C. B. Tinker (1930). Scolar Press facsimile (1968). PE 1620 C6 1623A ROBA.
- Cotgrave, Randle. 1611. A dictionarie of the French and English tongues. STC
5830. 2 editions: 1632. Facsimile editions from Scolar Press (1968). PC 2640 A2C7 1611a ROBA.
Theatrum Orbis (1971). PC 2640 A2C7 1611ac ROBA. University of South Carolina Press (1950). PC
2640 A2C7 1611ab ROBA.
- Elyot, Sir Thomas. 1538. The Dictionary of syr Thomas Eliot. STC 7659 (3 editions:
1542, 1545). Scolar Press facsimile (1970). PA 2365 E4E6 1538a ROBA; PA 2365 E4E6 1548a ROBA.
- Florio, John. 1611. Queen Anna's New World of Words. Enlarged edition of A worlde of wordes,
or most copious, dictionarie in Italian and English. 1598. STC 11099. Scolar Press facsimile
(1968). PC 1640 A2F6 1611a ROBA.
- Jervis, Swynfen. 1868. A Dictionary of the Language of Shakespeare. London: J. R. Smith.
PR 2892 J4 ROBA
- Lancashire, Ian. 1992. `Bilingual Dictionaries in an English Renaissance Knowledge Base.' In T. R.
Wooldridge. Historical Dictionary Databases. University of Toronto: CCH. 69-88.
- Onions, C. T. 1986. A Shakespeare Glossary. Rev. by Robert D. Eagleson. Oxford:
Clarendon Press. PR 2892 O6 1986 c. 1 GENR
- Palsgrave, John. 1530. Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse. STC 19166. Ed.
Francois Genin (1852). PC 2103 P35 ROBA. Scolar Press facsimile (1969). PC 2103 P35 1530a ROBA.
- Schäaut;fer, Jürgen. 1980. Documentation in the OED: Shakespeare and Nashe as Test
Cases. Oxford: Clarendon Press. PE 1625 M7S3 ROBA
- Schäaut;fer, Jüaut;rgen. 1989. Early Modern English Lexicography. Oxford:
Clarendon Press. 2 vols. PE 891 S34 1989 ROBA; GENR
- Stein, Gabrielle. 1985. The English Dictionary before Cawdrey. Tüaut;bingen:
Niemeyer. PE 1611 S835 1985 ROBA
- Thomas, Thomas. 1587. Dictionarium Linguae Latinae et Anglicanae. STC 24008
(13 editions: 1589, 1592, 1593, 1596, 1600, 1606, 1610, 1615, 1619, 1620, 1631). Scolar Press facsimile
(1972). PA 2365 E4T86 1587a ROBA.
- Thomas, William. 1550. Principal Rules of the Italian Grammar, with a dictionarie.
STC 24020 (3 editions: 1562, 1567). Scolar Press facsimile (1968). PC 1109 T46 1550a ROBA.
- Wells, Stanley W. 1978. Shakespeare, an Illustrated Dictionary. London: Kaye and Wood.
RP 2892 W44 1978 ROBA
- Williams, Gordon. 1994. A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and
Stuart Literature. London: Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Athlone Press. PR 428 S48W54 1994X ROBA
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c. Grammar
- Abbott, E. A. 1870. A Shakespearian Grammar. Reprinted New York: Dover, 1966. PR
3075 A4 ROBA
- Brinsley, John. 1612. Ludus literarius, 1612. Menston: Scolar, 1968. English Linguistics
62. LB 1109 J85 1640A ROBA
- Bullokar, William. 1966-80. Works. Ed. B. Danielsson and R. C. Alston. 4 vols. Leeds. PE
27 B8 ROBA
- Burton, Dolores M. 1973. Shakespeare's Grammatical Style: A Computer-Assisted Analysis of
Richard II and Anthony and Cleopatra. Austin and London: University of Texas Press. PR 3078 B8
1973 ROBA
- Coote, Edmund. 1596. The English Schoole-maister, 1596. Menston: Scolar, 1968. PE 1119
A1C6 596A ROBA
- Franz, Wilhelm. 1900. Shakespeare-Grammatik. Halle. PR 3075 F7 ROBA
- Jonson, Ben. 1640. The English Grammar (from the Works) 1640. Menston: Scolar, 1972.
English Linguistics 349. PE 1109 J85 1640A ROBA
- Lyly, William. 1549. A Short Introduction of Grammar, 1549. Menston: Scolar, 1970.
Engl. Ling. 262. PA 2084 L6 1549a ROBA
- Mulcaster, Richard. 1582. The first part of the Elementarie which entreateth of right writing of
our English tung. STC 18250. Scolar Press facsimile (1970). PE 1109 M86 1970 ROBA.
Also ed. E. T. Campagnac (1925). Educat. Teach. M.
- Quirk, R., Greenbaum, S., Leech, G., and Svartvik, J. 1985. A Comprehensive Grammar of the
English Language. London. PE 1106 C65 1985 GENR
d. Phrases
- Berry-Rogghe, G. L. M. 1973. "The Computation of Collocations and Their Relevance in Lexical
Studies." In A. J. Aitken, R. W. Bailey, and N. Hamilton-Smith, eds. The Computer and Literary
Studies. Edinburgh. 103-12. PN 73 S9 1972 ROBA
- Dent, R. W. 1981. Shakespeare's Proverbial Language: An Index. Berkeley: University of
California Press. PR 2892 D43 1980 ROBA
- Dent, R. W. 1984. Proverbial Language in English Drama Exclusive of Shakespeare, 1495-1616:
An Index. Berkeley: University of California Press. PR 658 P73D46 1984 GENR
- Firth, J. R. 1957. "`Modes of Meaning." Papers in Linguistics 1934-51. London: Oxford
University Press. 190-215.
- Hoey, M. 1991. Patterns of Lexis in Text. Oxford.
- Sinclair, John. 1991. Corpus Concordance, Collocation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
PE 1074 .5 1991 ROBA
e. Pronunciation
- Cercignani, Fausto. 1981. Shakespeare's Works and Elizabethan Pronunciation. Oxford:
Clarendon Press. PR 3081 C4 ROBA
- Dobson, Eric John. English Pronunciation, 1500-1700. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
PE 1137 D58 1968 ROBA
- Köaut;keritz, Helge. 1953. Shakespeare's Pronunication. New Haven: Yale University
Press. PR 3081 K6 ROBA
3. Memory and Authorship
- Baddeley, A. 1990. Human Memory: Theory and Practice. Hove and London. BF 371 B22
1990 ROBA
- Chang, T. M. 1986. "Semantic Memory: Facts and Models." Psychological Bulletin 99.2: 199-
220. BF 1 P68 ROBA
- Kosslyn, S. M., and O. Koenig. 1992. Wet Mind: The New Cognitive Neuroscience. New
York. QP 360 .5 K67 1992 BMED
- Lancashire, I. 1994. "Uttering and Editing: Computational Text Analysis and Cognitive Studies in
Authorship." Texte: Revue de Critique et de Theorie Litteraire 13/14: 173-218. PN 88 T488
ROBA
- Pierce, J. R. 1980. An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals & Noise.
2nd ed. New York. Q 360 P48 1980 SIGS
- Squire, Larry R. 1987. Memory and Brain. New York. QP 406 S66 1987 BMED
4. Electronic Resources
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Early Modern English Dictionaries Database. Ed. Ian Lancashire.
Now available on the World Wide Web for searching.
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Early Modern English Studies. Ed. Raymond Siemens.
University of British Columbia, 1995-. The best source of Web sites
about Shakespeare on-line.
- Shakespeare, William. 1989. The Complete Works. Electronic Edition for the IBM PC. Ed.
Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor. Oxford University Press. University
of Toronto site license. Available CHASS facility, 14th floor,
Robarts Library.
- Shakespeare, William. 1990. The Riverside Shakespeare. The WordCruncher Disc. Volume
1. Orem, Utah: Electronic Text Corp. CD-ROM. For use with WordCruncher only. Available
CHASS Facility, Robarts Library.
- Shakespeare, William. 1995. SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS 1609. Ed. Hardy Cook and Ian
Lancashire. Renaissance Electronic Texts 2. Forthcoming.
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The SHAKSPER Listserve Archive. Ed. Hardy Cook.