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Shakespeare's language (Socially determined ('Educated' ('…
Shakespeare's language
Socially determined
'Educated'
'polysemy' & word play
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before dictionaries, no stable variations of spellings, just words with a range of possible meanings.
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Verse forms
mostly uses blank verse
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does not demand stresses on every even syllable, but when there is stress, it must appear on these
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too little, tension between form & expression that raises about poetry above prose would be lost
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Semantics
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'Aristotelian' position
names are arbitrary, change between languages
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