Shakespearian Punctuation

Percy Simpson

Clarendon Press, 1911 - English language - 107 pages

Contents

• INTRODUCTION: 7
• Light stopping: 16
• Vocative followed but not preceded by a comma: 20
• Vocative without commas: 21
• Imperative without comma: 22
• Appositional phrase without comma: 23
• Comma marking a metrical pause: 24
• The emphasizing comma: 26
• Comma equivalent to a dash: 31
• Comma marking interrupted speech: 32
• Comma marking the logical subject: 34
• Comma marking off adverbial phrase or clause: 36
• Comma between accusative and dative: 38
• Comma between object and complement: 39
• Comma before a noun clause: 41
• Comma before the defining relative: 42
• Comma before as: 43
• Comma before but except: 44
• Comma before than: 45
• Comma before and with no comma after: 47
• Comma before or and nor with no comma after: 48
• Comma before not with no comma after: 49
• Relative followed by a comma 5 I: 53
• Comma marking the omission of the relative: 54
• The semicolon: 56
• Semicolon with preliminary clauses: 57
• Semicolon marking interrupted speech: 60
• The emphasizing semicolon: 62
• The distinction between the semicolon and the colon: 65
• Colon marking an emphatic pause: 67
• Colon marking an interrupted speech: 71
• Antithetic colon: 74
• Colon introducing reported speech c: 77
• The full stop in an incomplete sentence: 79
• Full stop ending an interrupted speech: 84
• The use of ? in exclamations: 85
• The metrical hyphen: 86
• Brackets: 87
• Brackets within brackets: 98
• Quotations: 100
• The use of capital letters: 103

Bibliographic information

• Title: Shakespearian Punctuation; @Oxf. Reprints; Oxford Books
• Author: Percy Simpson
• Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1911
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: May 28, 2008
• ISBN: 0198111355, 9780198111351
• Length: 107 pages