Richard Mulcaster, The First Part of the Elementary (1582)

Date

1582

Author

Richard Mulcaster Note: 12/10/2005

Lexicon title

The Generall Table

Book title

The First Part of the Elementarie which Entreateth Chefelie of the right writing of our English tung, set furth by Richard Mulcaster

Dedicated to

Robert Dudley

Publication place

London

Publisher

Thomas Vautroullier

Transcription source

Scolar Press facsimile (Bodleian Library)

Text type

printed book

Genre

Spelling

Subject area

• education
• spelling

Language

headwords: English

Extent

170-225

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: Abaie

Alston

VI.462

STC

18250

Catalog

Kennedy, Arthur Garfield. A Bibliography on Writings on the English Language from the Beginning of Printing to the End of 1922. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1927. 5699. view record

Facsimiles

Mulcaster, Richard. The First Part of the Elementary. 1582. English linguistics 1500-1800, no. 219. Menston: Scolar Press, 1970. view record

Modern editions

Mulcaster, Richard. Mulcaster's Elementarie. Ed. E. T. Campagnac. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925. view record

Criticisms

DeMolen, Richard L. "Richard Mulcaster: An Elizabethan Savant." Shakespeare Studies 8 (1975): 29-82. view record
Klähr, T. Leben und Werke Richard Mulcasters. n.p.: n.p., 1893. view record
Wiener, Leo. "Richard Mulcaster, an Elizabethan Philologist." Modern Language Notes 12 (1897 March): 129-39. view record
Sönmez, Margaret. "The Influence of Early Monolingual Dictionaries and Word Lists on the Standardisation of English Spelling." Anglia 119.2 (2001): 207-31. view record
Leonard, Alice. "'Enfranchised' Language in Mulcaster's Elementarie and Shakespeare's Henry V." Revista alicantina de estudios ingleses 25 (2012): 127-35. view record