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

ISBN: 0415756847

ISBN13: 9780415756846

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

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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...

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