In the history of modern English there is no period in which such victory over thought-in-speech has been so widespread. Nor in the past has the general idiom, on which we depend for our very ...

with a particular interest in English Renaissance drama (Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, Webster) and in tragedy and theories of tragedy. His secondary interest, which sometimes takes him beyond the ...

As a linguist I am particularly concerned with the Later Modern English and Historical Sociolinguistics. As a literary scholar my specialism lies in prose of the Romantic period. My first degree was ...

Ronda Arab is from Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she completed an Honours BA and an MA in English at Dalhousie University. She completed another MA and a PhD at Columbia University in New York City. She ...