Essentials of Early EnglishPsychology Press, 1999 - 251 pages A practical and accessible introduction to the early stages of the English language: Old English, Middle English and Early Modern English. |
Contents
Chapter 2 | 18 |
Describing language | 19 |
Old English | 46 |
Early Modern English | 126 |
Section A Old English Texts | 158 |
7 From Elfrics Life of King Oswald | 169 |
Section B Middle English texts | 175 |
1 From The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales | 176 |
1 From Loues labours lost | 201 |
2 From As you like it | 203 |
3 From The Tragedie of King Lear | 204 |
4 From The Tragedie of Julius Cæsar | 207 |
5 From The Tragedie of Hamlet | 208 |
6 From The Tragedie of Richard the Third | 210 |
7 From the Authorized Version of the Bible 1611 | 212 |
8 From E K s Preface to Spensers Shepheardes Calender 1579 | 213 |
2 From The Pardoners Tale | 178 |
3 From The Parsons Tale | 181 |
4 From The Peterborough Chronicle | 184 |
5 From Sir Orfeo | 186 |
6 From Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | 188 |
7 From William Caxtons Preface to his edition of the Morte Darthure | 190 |
8 From Sir Thomas Malory The Morte Darthur | 192 |
9 A letter from Margaret Paston | 193 |
Early Modern English texts | 199 |
9 From John Miltons Areopagitica 1644 | 215 |
10 From John Dryden All for Love or the World Well Lost 16771678 | 216 |
11 From The Letters of Lady Brilliana Harley 1642 | 218 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY GLOSSARY AND THEMATIC INDEX | 221 |
Annotated Bibliography | 223 |
Old English Glossary | 229 |
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Common terms and phrases
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