Pronouncing Shakespeare's Words by Dale Coye

Pronouncing Shakespeare's Words by Dale Coye

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.

"Authoritative and comprehensive" -- Choice
"Will undoubtedly be extremely useful to actors, teachers, students and general readers of Shakespeare." -- Booklist
"Still the only collection of established scholarly opinion on pronunciation and one of the few resources providing professional guidance for place and proper names. This work will greatly benefit students and professors of Shakespearean literature and drama." -- Library Journal

Dale Coye is Assistant Professor at the College of New Jersey where he teaches the history of the English language among other courses. He received his PhD in Linguistics from Princeton in 1979.

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ISBN 13	9780415941822
ISBN 10	0415941822
Title	Pronouncing Shakespeare's Words
Author	Dale Coye
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2002-10-04
Number of pages	358
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