Early Modern English
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In your best Early Modern English: Bid us, what wast the most wondrous parteth of making “The Tragedy of Macbeth”?
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2022
Rather than paper over this uncertainty, McKay decided to dramatize it in a particularly audacious way: Bale and Adams begin speaking in a Shakespearean approximation of Early Modern English.
From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2018
BYU’s Corpus of Early Modern English, with 40,000 texts and close to 1.3 billion words, shows 1,572 instances of the phrase.
From Washington Post • May 21, 2018
“The Compleat Gentleman,” a book from two centuries earlier and written in Early Modern English, could fetch $4,000.
From Washington Post
In the productions of Caxton’s press we see the passage from Middle to Early Modern English completed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
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