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The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation
David Crystal
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Description for The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation
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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 IPA, 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 ... Read more
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 IPA, 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
1361g
Number of Pages
704
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199668427
SKU
V9780199668427
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About David Crystal
David Crystal is known throughout the world as a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster on language. His work on the language of Shakespeare includes Pronouncing Shakespeare (CUP, 2005), Think on my Words: Exploring Shakespeare's Languages (CUP, 2008), and, with Ben Crystal, Shakespeare's Words (Penguin, 2002), The Shakespeare Miscellany (Penguin, 2005), and The Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary (OUP, 2015).
Reviews for The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation
Crystal has looked to capture the state of our language at the time when Shakespeare was writing ... he has achieved something quite remarkable.
The Bookbag
fascinating
Stratford-on-Avon Observer
A whole linguistic world is anatomised by David Crystal ...
Spectator
Crystal's unique dictionary joins his other worthy Shakespearean language works to form an essential ... Read more
The Bookbag
fascinating
Stratford-on-Avon Observer
A whole linguistic world is anatomised by David Crystal ...
Spectator
Crystal's unique dictionary joins his other worthy Shakespearean language works to form an essential ... Read more