Renaissance Syntax
ENGL 202
Prof. G. Steinberg

Look at the following data from Elizabethan England.  Given what you know about diagramming questions, how did Elizabethan question formation differ from question formation today?  Was Elizabethan question formation uniform?

  1. And did you leave him in this contemplation?  (As You Like It 2.1.64)

  2. Who has the office? (King Lear 5.3.248)

  3. What do you see? (Midsummer Night’s Dream 3.1.120)

  4. What said he?  (As You Like It 3.2.221)

  5. Sent he to Macduffe? (Macbeth 3.6.39)


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