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Tables of Contents for Essentials of Early English
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
PART I DESCRIPTIVE MATERIAL
1
156
1 Introduction
3
14
1.1 About this book
4
1
1.2 A short history of English
5
2
1.3 External history
7
3
1.4 Internal history
10
4
1.5 A preliminary illustration
14
3
2 Describing language
17
28
2.1 Introduction
18
1
2.2 The levels of language
19
1
2.3 Speech and writing
20
1
2.4 Phonetics and phonology
20
8
2.5 Grammar and lexicon
28
17
3 Old English
45
46
3.1 Introduction
46
1
3.2 Spelling and pronunciation
47
3
3.3 Syntax
50
17
3.4 Paradigms
67
18
3.5 Lexicon
85
2
3.6 Appendix I: From Early to Late West Saxon
87
1
3.7 Appendix II: On OE dialects
88
3
4 Middle English
91
34
4.1 Introduction
92
2
4.2 Spelling and pronunication
94
5
4.3 Syntax
99
12
4.4 Paradigms
111
9
4.5 Lexicon
120
1
4.6 Appendix: On Middle English dialects
121
4
5 Early Modern English
125
32
5.1 Introduction
126
1
5.2 Spelling and pronunciation
127
7
5.3 Syntax
134
11
5.4 Paradigms
145
8
5.5 Lexicon
153
1
5.6 Appendix: Evidence for EModE dialects
154
3
PART II ILLUSTRATIVE TEXTS
157
64
Section A Old English Texts
159
16
(1) The Man Who Built His House on Sand
160
1
(2) Abraham and Isaac
161
1
(3) From the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
162
1
(4) Daniel
163
1
(5) Caedmon's Hymn
164
1
(6) From The Dream of the Rood
165
2
(7) From AElfric's Life of King Oswald
167
2
(8) From Beowulf
169
6
Section B Middle English texts
175
24
(1) From The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
176
2
(2) From The Pardoner's Tale
178
3
(3) From The Parson's Tale
181
3
(4) From The Peterborough Chronicle
184
2
(5) From Sir Orfeo
186
2
(6) From Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
188
2
(7) From William Caxton's Preface to his edition of the Morte Darthure
190
2
(8) From Sir Thomas Malory, The Morte Darthur
192
1
(9) A letter from Margaret Paston
193
6
Section C Early Modern English texts
199
22
(1) From Loues labour's lost
201
2
(2) From As you like it
203
1
(3) From The Tragedie of King Lear
204
3
(4) From The Tragedie of Julius Caesar
207
1
(5) From The Tragedie of Hamlet
208
2
(6) From The Tragedie of Richard the Third
210
2
(7) From the Authorized Version of the Bible (1611)
212
1
(8) From E.K.'s Preface to Spenser's Shepheardes Calender (1579)
213
2
(9) From John Milton's Areopagitica (1644)
215
1
(10) From John Dryden, All for Love or, the World Well Lost (1677/1678)
216
2
(11) From The Letters of Lady Brilliana Harley (1642)
218
3
PART III BIBLIOGRAPHY, GLOSSARY AND THEMATIC INDEX
221
Annotated Bibliography
223
6
Old English Glossary
229
18
Thematic Index
247