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Overview
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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780415941822
- ISBN-10: 0415941822
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: October 2002
- Dimensions: 9.14 x 6.08 x 0.77 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.09 pounds
- Page Count: 358
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