Shakespearean English

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(1)
(a) Why did Shakespeare add "'st" to some verbs (i.e. "weep'st" or "couldst")?  Reddit, 2017
https://www.reddit.com/r/shakesp ... _to_some_verbs_ie/?
(Q: " 'Well, girl, thou weep'st not so much for his death' ([Romeo and Juliet] 3.5.78)"
Cavalir answered: "Because that was a common second person conjugation of verbs. Just like adding 'eth' was common for the third person. I know. Thou know'st. He knoweth."_
(b)
(i) "MLA style recommends citing Shakespeare's plays using act, scene, and line numbers [separated by periods] rather than standard page numbers.": from the Web.
(ii) MLA stands for Modern Language Association
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Language_Association
(1883- ; table: Headquarters  New York City)

(2)
(a) "The language in which Shakespeare wrote is referred to as Early Modern English, a linguistic period that lasted from approximately 1500 to 1750. The language spoken during this period is often referred to as Elizabethan English or Shakespearian English. It falls between two major linguistic stages in the history of English: Middle English, the language written and spoken during the Middle Ages, most famously by Chaucer, and Modern English, the language we write and speak today.": from the Web
(b) Early Modern English
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Modern_English

section 4 Grammar
section 4.1 Pronouns: table   second person: thou (singular informal), ye (plural informal), you (formal, for both singular and plural)
section 4.2 Verbs, section 4.2.1 Tense and number


(3) Here are some landmark events:
(a) House of Tudor (1485-1603; preceded by House of Plantagenet (1154-1485))
including Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603, reign 1558-1603; died childless and the House ended)
(b) William Shakespeare (c 1564-1616)