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“Thou” and “You” in Shakespeare

Many European languages have two words for the second person pronoun ‘you’ where Standard English has just the one. ...

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Shakespeare’s London

What did London mean to Shakespeare? Curiously, it seems he never thought of London as his home.

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Dramatic Irony in Shakespeare

One of the ironies of dramatic irony is that you pretty much have to have it. Unless all the characters ...

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Shakespeare’s Times

The country Shakespeare was born into in 1564 was in recovery from the trauma of thirty years of acute social ...

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Sonnet 28: A Linguistic Analysis

The poem takes the form of a dramatic monologue. It is delivered by a first-person speaker or narrator, and addressed ...

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Shakespeare’s English

The English language in its original state arrives in the isles of Britain on the lips of the fifth-century Anglo-Saxon ...

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