Early Modern English

• The Renaissance stimulated further changes in pronunciation and grammar, and another enormous increase in vocabulary, leading to the emergence of an Early Modern English.

• Its character was much influenced by Elizabethan literature, notably by Shakespeare, and by the texts of many Bibles, especially those of Tyndale (1525) and King James (1611).

• The unprecedented increase in the language's range and creativity brought concern about the unwelcome pace and character of language change (the "inkhorn" controversy).

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