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XANTHIPPE 
Socrate's scolding wife 


YARE 
ready, being understood 
YARELY 
readily 
YAW 
out of control 
Y-CLAD 
clad 
Y-CLEPED 
called, named 
YEARN 
to grieve, vex 
YELLOWNESS 
jealousy 
YELLOWS 
a disease of horses 
YEOMAN 
a sheriff's officer 
YIELD 
to reward To report 


ZANY 
a clown, gull 

Interpreting Elizabethan / Shakespearean Manuscripts and Original Documents
 

Vital, but little known, information about the Elizabethan alphabet is essential when looking at copies of original manuscripts of the period - examples of which can be found in Shakespeare's ' First Folio '. Learning the alphabet used during the Elizabethan era will no doubt clarify many questions that the differences of the Tudor / Elizabethan alphabet have raised such as "Couldn't Elizabethans spell properly?" and "Why is there so much confusion with the letters 'u' and 'v' and 'i' and 'j' ?Shakespeare translations and understanding the real meanings behind some of the Shakespeare language in the great plays and sonnets can be difficult. And this is hardly surprising when the expressions and their meanings have been obsolete since the Elizabethan era!


William Shakespeare Education - the Elizabethan Alphabet - Differences only 24 letters - Deciphering manuscripts of the era

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