Pronouncing Shakespeare's Words
List Price: $25.95
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-94182-2
- Binding: Paperback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 10/04/2002
- Pages: 360
- Trim Size: 6 x 9
Lecturers/Professors only: request examination copy
About the Book
How do you pronounce zounds, Milan, housewife and hundreds of other words in Shakespeare's plays? In this ingenious book, Dale Coye has provided a guide to each significant word, line-by line, scene-by-scene, in twenty of Shakespeare's most popular plays. More than a simple pronouncing dictionary, Pronouncing Shakespeare's Words pays attention to scansion, displays alternative pronunciations in different centuries and geographical areas, and provides a simple pronunciation guide requiring no knowledge of lexicographic symbols.Now available in an affordable paperback edition, Pronouncing Shakespeare's Plays will become a vade mecum (pronounced VAH-day MAY-cum) for actors, students, and general readers of Shakespeare.
You may also be interested in:
Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater
Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater traces the shaping of a resistant identity in memory, its direct expression in testimony, and its indirect elaboration...
Published 04/28/2008 | 978-0-415-96119-6
more information about Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater