Modal Verbs in Marlowe and Shakespeare

Monika Skorasińska PhD, is a Teaching and Research Assistant at the Institute of English of the University of Szczecin, Poland. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, and her research focuses on historical linguistics, particularly historical semantics, historical pragmatics, and the history of the English language. She is the author of eleven articles and chapters devoted primarily to modality and speech acts in Early Modern English language, language in the plays of William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, and the history of modal verbs. Her publications include “Epistemic Modal Verbs in Shakespeare and Marlowe” in Subjectivity and Epistemicity. Corpus, Discourse, and Literary Approaches to Stance (2014) and “Can in Shakespeare and Marlowe” in Studia Anglica Posnaniensia (2014).