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Author
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Date published
1998
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Publisher
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998.
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Subject
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Language Glossaries, etc.
English language Early modern, 1500-1700 Pronunciation Dictionaries
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Accession number
83429960
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Class
46/COY
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Language
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Physical description
xvi, 724 pages ; 24 cm.
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Contents: Preface -- Pronunciation Key -- Abbreviations -- Introduction; Using the Guide -- Altering Modern Pronunciation to Fit the Verse -- A Pronouncing Guide to the Plays and Poems -- The Plays -- The Poems -- Appendix A: Common Words with More than One Standard Pronunciation in Today's English -- Appendix B: Some Archaic Forms in Riverside and Their Modern Equivalents -- Appendix C: The Vowel Systems of North American and British English -- Appendix D: Special Notes on Selected Words and Word Endings; Appendix E: Pronunciation in Elizabethan England; References -- Index of Words.