This teacher's handbook contains 150 photocopiable worksheets.
His starting point is the one we have seen, the Lord Marshall's announcement in Richard II: Stay! The King hath thrown his warder down. Groves talks about 'the surprise of the silent initial off-beat – performatively a little like ...
Plumbing the sweet mysteries of Shakespeare's "language," the author argues that the Bard's tragedies were probably difficult even for his contemporaries to understand and identifies a shift in Shakespeare's use of language around 1600.
Shakespeare's Language: 150 Photocopiable Worksheets
Explains the meaning of thousands of words as they are used in Shakespeare, and provides a quote using the word in context.
Every so often there is a rebellion against the assumption that Shakespeare is a uniquely great writer. This feeling, strong at the moment, has vociferous supporters in the academics, teachers...
"In Shakespeare's Language, Keith Johnson offers an overview of the rich and dynamic history of the reception and study of Shakespeare's language from his death right up to the present.