Broken English: Dialects and the Politics of Language in Renaissance Writings

by Paula Blank

Book Overview

The English language in the Renaissance was in many ways a collection of competing Englishes. Paula Blank investigates the representation of alternative vernaculars - the dialects of early modern English - in both linguistic and literary works of the period. Blank argues that Renaissance authors such as Spenser, Shakespeare and Jonson helped to construct the idea of a national language, variously known as 'true' English or 'pure' English or the 'King's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415756847
• ISBN13: 9780415756846
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"