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Article: Editing Manuscripts in the New English: Forward to the Past. (Language & Literature).
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- Michigan Academician
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- March 22, 2002
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Editing Manuscripts in the New English: Forward to the Past. James P. Sullivan, Saginaw Valley State University, English Department, Suite 337 Brown Hall, 7400 Bay Road, University Center, MI 48710; 989/631-9971
The paper "interrogates" a holograph by Padraic Colum, one that appears long forgotten, hardly--if ever--discussed, and probably never published. Either shortly before leaving Ireland or soon after his arrival in New York, Colum set our to "modernize" the language of one of the oldest comedies in English. His "adaption" however, was not of the expected sort, from Middle to modern English, but rather from the British vernacular of the early ...