menu18th Century English for History Interpreters

18th Century English for History Interpreters
Gove Allen
Chapter 1: Finding Your Eighteenth-Century Voice
Chapter 2: Meetings, Partings, and Forms of Address
Chapter 3: Pronouns and the Everyday Verbs
Chapter 4: Negatives, Contractions, and Questions
Chapter 5: Adjectives, Adverbs, and Comparisons
Chapter 6: Joining Ideas: Conjunctions and Connectors
Chapter 7: Proverbs, Exclamations, and Genteel Profanity
Chapter 8: Speaking by Station: Polite, Low, and Women's Speech
Chapter 9: The Speech of Enslaved and Free Black Virginians
Chapter 10: Building Your Character's Voice
Chapter 11: Quick-Reference Appendix