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Early Modern English
Dictionary

• Leme (Lexicons of Early Modern English)

• OldEnglishTranslatorsr: Shakespearean English <> contemporary English online translation & Old English


• A Table Alphabeticall, conteyning and teaching the true writing, and understanding of hard usuall English wordes, par Robert Crawdrey (1604) (+ text version)

• A Table Alphabeticall (1617, 3rd edition)

It is the first English dictionary (120 pages, 3 000 words)

• Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum or a General English Dictionary, by John Kersey (1708)

• Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum or a more compleat Universal Etymological English Dictionary than any extant, by Nathan Bailey (1730)

• An Universal Etymological English Dictionary by Nathan Bailey (1726) & 1737 edition (with many additions)

& 1775 edition (+ Google version)


• A Dictionary of the English language in which the Words are deduced from their Originals, explained in their Different Meanings, by Samuel Johnson (1768, 3rd edition) & 1792 edition

• Dictionary of the English language by Samuel Johnson & John Walker (1828 edition)

→ Preface of the first edition (1755)



• Glossary of Tudor and Stuart words, especially from the dramatists, by Walter Skeat & Anthony Mayhew (1914)

• New light on some obscure words and phrases in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, by Charles Mackay (1884)


• Johnson's Dictionary: myths and realities, by David Crystal (2018)

Early Modern English language

• A Grammar of the English tongue by Samuel Johnson (1768)


• A Shakespearian grammar, an attempt to illustrate some of the differences between Elizabethan and modern English, by Edwin Abbott (1877)

• The comparison of adjectives in English (15th-18th century) by Louise Pound (1901)


• On early English pronunciation with especial reference to Shakspere and Chaucer, by Alexander Ellis (1869): I & II - III - IV - V

• Shakespeare's pronunciation by Wilhelm Viëtor (1906): I (A Shakespeare phonology & rime-index to the poems as a pronouncing vocabulary) & II (A Shakespeare reader)

• John Hart's pronunciation of English (1569-1570) by Otto Jespersen (1907)


• The life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell (1791) & introduction by Austin Dobson (1901): I & II

Texts & Literature

• William Shakespeare: complete works


• The meanings of romance: rethinking early modern fiction, by Christine Lee, in Modern Philology (2014)

• The age of Shakespeare (1579-1631) by Thomas Seccombe & John William Allen (1904): I (Poetry & Prose) & II (Drama)

• Elizabethan literature by John Mackinnon Robertson (1914)


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