LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM 1. Name of requester: Doug Ewell 2. E-mail address of requester: doug at ewellic.org 3. Record Requested: Type: variant Subtag: emodeng Description: Early Modern English (1500-1700) Prefix: en 4. Intended meaning of the subtag: Represents the variety of English spoken and written approximately between 1500 and 1700, both popularly and by such authors as Donne, Dryden, Jonson, Kyd, Marlowe, Middleton, Milton, Shakespeare, Spenser, and Wyatt, as well as in the Authorized King James Version Bible (1611). 5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article): Abbott, Edwin A. "A Shakespearian grammar. An attempt to illustrate some of the differences between Elizabethan and modern English." London: Macmillan and Co. (Third Edition, 1883). Barber, Charles Laurence. "Early Modern English." Edinburgh University Press (1997). ISBN 978-07486-0835-5. Crystal, David. "Think on My Words: Exploring Shakespeare's Language." Cambridge University Press (2008). ISBN 978-0-521-70035-1 (paperback). Lass, Roger, ed. "The Cambridge History of the English Language, Volume III." Cambridge University Press (1999). ISBN 978-0-521-26476-1. 6. Any other relevant information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Modern_English