Excerpt from the second quarto of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' by William Shakespeare (c 1594 - 1596)

References

Books

• Bryson, B. (1990) Mother Tongue, The English Language. London: Penguin Group.

• Crystal, D. (2005) The Stories of English. London: Penguin Group.

• Graddol, D., Leith, D., Swan, J. (1996) English History, Diversity and Change. Oxon: Routledge.

Internet 

• Colin Courses (n.d.) Colin Courses, Linguistic Education, Lecture 2[online] available from http://www.ling.udel.edu/colin/courses/ling101_f99/lecture2.html (March 2009)

Bibliography 

Books

• Fennell, B. A. (2001) A History of English. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Websites

• Alexander Chubarov (n. d.) 1066 and all that [online] available from http://www.1066andallthat.com/english_modern/prescriptivism_05.asp (March 2009) 

• Anniina Jokinen (October 2006) Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature[online] available from http://www.luminarium.org/eightlit/swift/swiftbib.htm (March 2009)