An Introduction To Early Modern English, This Book Helps Students Of English And Linguistics To Place The Language Of The Period 1500-1700 In Its Historical Context As A Language With A Common Core But Also One Which Varies Across Time, Regionally And Socially, And According To Register. The Volume Focuses On The Structure Of What Contemporaries Called The General Dialect--its Spelling, Vocabulary, Grammar And Punctuation--and On Its Dialectal Origins. The Book Also Discusses The Language Situation And Linguistic Anxieties In England At A Time When Latin Exerted A Strong Influence On The Rising Standard Language.