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Pronouncing Shakespeare's Words.
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Pronouncing Shakespeare's Words A GUIDE FROM A TO ZOUNDS; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Pronunciation Key; Abbreviations; Introduction; Using the Guide; The Basic Text: The Riverside Shakespeare; Which Words Are Included?; Notation; Pronunciation Variants within the United States; How the Pronunciations Were Determined; When Is a Variant Pronunciation "Wrong"?; Mannered Pronunciations and the Influence of British English in North America; Lost Rhymes and Puns; Proper Names; Foreign Words and Phrases; Regional, Foreign, and Lower-Class Accents; Altering Modern Pronunciation to Fit the Verse.
- Variations of the Basic Iambic Pentameter LineShifting the Stress of a Word to Maintain the Iambic Rhythm; Compressing Word; Expanding Words; Why Follow the Iambic Meter?; A Pronouncing Guide to the Plays; The Most Common "Hard" Words in Shakespeare; The Most Common Reduced Forms; The Plays; All's Well That Ends Well; As You Like It; The Comedy of Errors; Hamlet; Henry IV part one; Henry V; Julius Caesar; King Lear; Macbeth; Measure for Measure; The Merchant of Venice; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Much Ado About Nothing; Othello; Richard II; Richard III; Romeo and Juliet.
- The Taming of the ShrewThe Tempest; Twelfth Night; The Winter's Tale; Appendix A: Common Words with More than One Standard Pronunciation in Today's English; Appendix B: Common Archaic Forms in Shakespeare; Appendix C: Pronunciation in Elizabethan England; References; Subject Index.