The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation

The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation
Author: David Crystal
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 701
Release: 2016-03-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0191645435

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 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.

Pronouncing Shakespeare's Words

Pronouncing Shakespeare's Words
Author: Dale Coye
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2016-08-03
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1136765034

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Pronouncing Shakespeare

Pronouncing Shakespeare
Author: David Crystal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2019-06-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1108466699

How did Shakespeare's plays sound when they were originally performed? How can we know, and could the original pronunciation ever be recreated? David Crystal recounts and reflects on Shakespeare's Globe's experiment with original pronunciation.