Crystal David (Honorary Professor Of Linguistics Honorary Professor Of Linguistics University Of Wales Bangor)
Crystal David (Honorary Professor Of Linguistics Honorary Professor Of Linguistics University Of Wales Bangor) - The Oxford Dictionary Of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation - Hardcover
Crystal David (Honorary Professor Of Linguistics Honorary Professor Of Linguistics University Of Wales Bangor) - The Oxford Dictionary Of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation - Hardcover
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Description: This dictionary is the first comprehensive description of Shakespearean original pronunication (OP) enabling practitioners to deal with any queries about the pronunciation of individual words. It includes all the words in the First Folio transcribed using IP a and the accompanying website hosts sound files as a further aid to pronunciation. It also includes the main sources of evidence in the texts notably all spelling variants (along with a frequency count for each variant) and all rhymes (including those occurring elsewhere in the canon such as the Sonnets and long poems). An extensive introduction provides a full account of the aims evidence history and current use of OP in relation to Shakespeare productions as well as indicating the wider use of OP in relation to other Elizabethan and Jacobean writers composers from the period the King James Bible and those involved in reconstructing heritage centres. It will be an invaluable resource for producers directors actors and others wishing to mount a Shakespeare production or present Shakespeare's poetry in original pronunciation as well as for students and academics in the fields of literary criticism and Shakespeare studies more generally.
Title: The Oxford Dictionary Of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation
Author(s): Crystal David (Honorary Professor Of Linguistics Honorary Professor Of Linguistics University Of Wales Bangor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199668427
Pages: 704 Pages
Publication Date: 6/1/2016
Category: Shakespeare Plays
Description: This dictionary is the first comprehensive description of Shakespearean original pronunication (OP) enabling practitioners to deal with any queries about the pronunciation of individual words. It includes all the words in the First Folio transcribed using IP a and the accompanying website hosts sound files as a further aid to pronunciation. It also includes the main sources of evidence in the texts notably all spelling variants (along with a frequency count for each variant) and all rhymes (including those occurring elsewhere in the canon such as the Sonnets and long poems). An extensive introduction provides a full account of the aims evidence history and current use of OP in relation to Shakespeare productions as well as indicating the wider use of OP in relation to other Elizabethan and Jacobean writers composers from the period the King James Bible and those involved in reconstructing heritage centres. It will be an invaluable resource for producers directors actors and others wishing to mount a Shakespeare production or present Shakespeare's poetry in original pronunciation as well as for students and academics in the fields of literary criticism and Shakespeare studies more generally.
Title: The Oxford Dictionary Of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation
Author(s): Crystal David (Honorary Professor Of Linguistics Honorary Professor Of Linguistics University Of Wales Bangor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199668427
Pages: 704 Pages
Publication Date: 6/1/2016
Category: Shakespeare Plays
