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Article: Broken English: Dialects and the Politics of Language in Renaissance Writings.(Review)
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- Shakespeare Studies
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- January 1, 1998
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Broken English: Dialects and the Politics of Language in Renaissance Writings. By Paula Blank. London and New York: Routledge, 1996.
Paula Blank's Broken English is not related to the recent film of the same name, for which ads in the Lexington Herald Leader during summer 1997 proclaim "The sex is wild!" The only copulation in this Broken English is the sort that joins subjects with predicates, and as far as I noticed it got wild only once, when a singular noun in a subject clause near the top of page 41 took a plural pronoun in the predicate. Despite this lapse in its otherwise chaste syntax, Broken English should prove a very useful book. It combines a survey of the ...