The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare


Abbott, E. A.

Abbott, E. A. (Edwin Abbott Abbott) (1838–1926),
English headmaster and grammarian, who addressed the first meeting of the New Shakespeare Society (13 March 1874). His A Shakespearian Grammar: An Attempt to Illustrate Some of the Differences between Elizabethan and Modern English (1869, repr. 1966) is an important attempt to describe Elizabethan syntax and idiom.

Tom Matheson

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