List of Topics

These are the topics which are treated as panels in Shakespeare's Words. They comprise a selection of interesting points to do with the grammar, pronunciation, and patterns of discourse of Early Modern English, as well as some thematic groupings of vocabulary to supplement the A-to-Z arrangement of the Glossary. If you would like to see additional topics treated in this way, please contact the authors.

a- as a particle
Abbreviations
Address forms
an
Archaisms
Attention signals
Body-armour
Clothing
Comparison
Cosmos
cousin
Discourse markers
Elision
Exclamations
Family
Functional shift
Farewells
Greetings
hence, thence, and whence
here, there, and where
hither, thither, and whither
how and how-
Humours
-ly
Money
Negatives
Numbers
Past tenses
Plants
Plurals
Politeness
Regrets
Responses
Roman history
Ships
Singing
Sounds
Stage directions
Swearing
thou and you
Verb forms
Weapons
what and what-
who and who-
withal and -withal
yon words
 
List of Themes

The A--Z section of this Website deals with Shakespeare's general English vocabulary. Two types of information have thereby been excluded: the use of proper (as opposed to common) nouns - that is, the names of individual people, places, days, etc which have a distinctive form or connotation compared to modern English; and vocabulary belonging to languages other than English or representing the three main Celtic-influenced dialects of English. Appendices I--XVI cover these areas. 
 
The quotations used within certain themes are purely for illustration, and do not represent the range of contexts in which a word occurs.  

 
  Beings
I Classical mythology
II Gods and goddesses
III Non-classical legend, romance, and folklore
IV Religious personalities and beings
V Historical figures
VI Contemporary figures, factual and fictitious
  Times
VII Days and dates
  Places
VIII London
IX Britain [outside London]
X World [outside Britain], places and peoples
  Languages and dialects
XI French
XII Latin
XIII Italian and Spanish
XIV Irish
XV Scottish
XVI Welsh