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.

Crystal has looked to capture the state of our language at the time when Shakespeare was writing ... he has achieved something quite remarkable.

Autorentext

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).

Inhalt

• Abbreviations

• Part I: Introduction

• An artistic-scientific endeavour

• The scope of this dictionary

• Entry structure

• The nature of the evidence

• Using original pronunciation

• The history of OP studies

• The modern OP movement

• Transcription

• References

• Notes

• Part II: The Dictionary