1. Decoding Shakespeare’s Language
Some bottlenecks and examples

2. familiar patterns I take up what’s cast away. (250)
Omitted Words
familiar patterns I take up what’s cast away. (250)

3. Word order adverbial prepositional phrases direct object adverb
To plainness honour’s bound, / When majesty falls to folly. (145-46)
Know that we have divided / In three our kingdom (33-34)
direct object
…that we our largest bounty may extend... (48)
Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon, (249)
adverb
Only we shall retain / The name, and all th’ addition to a king; (132-33)
adjective-adverb
He’ll shape his old course in a country new. (213)

4. Clipping and the apostrophe
familiar patterns
I take up what’s cast away. (250)
…and here are to be answer’d (44)

5. Inversion of the subject and verb Is not this your son, my lord? (7)
Question Formation
Inversion of the subject and verb Is not this your son, my lord? (7)

6. Shifting Parts of Speech
Adjectives nominalized The barbarous Scythian… shall to my bosom be as well neighbor’d…as though my sometime daughter. (250)