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Book ReviewsAll the Words on Stage: A Complete Pronunciation Dictionary for the Plays of William Shakespeare |
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Book: All the Words on Stage: A Complete Pronunciation Dictionary for the Plays of William Shakespeare
Written by: Louis Scheeder Shane Ann Younts |
Publisher: Smith & Kraus
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5
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Thank you!
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This book should be a required reference for any director of Shakespeare. It is a great actor's tool.
Great for all who love Shakespeare
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This excellent pronunciation dictionary should be in every theater, high school and college. It is clearly laid out and has all of the words in all of the plays. I found the website for the book informative - www.allthewordsonstage.com.
Strongly recommended for anyone who loves Shakespeare.
Clear and concise
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5 / 5
I can't say enough in praise of "All the Words on Stage". Until I found this dictionary on Amazon - thank you Amazon! - I had been struggling with not only the pronunciations of words but how to figure out where to stress a word. This extraordinary book does have ALL the words in it and it also explains in a straight forward way why words are stressed as they are. I like the lay out of each page. It's clean and easy to read. Also the way the words are respelled is crystal clear - much easier to follow than other Shakespeare pronouncing dictionaries that I have looked at. Some of my fellow actors are familiar with the phonetic symbols so it is good that the book includes both the respellings and the phonetics.
The research that must have gone in to this book! As I was thumbing through it, I was staggered by the specific information that is covered on each word. The authors must have read, scanned and studied each play many, many times to have been able to compile all of this information.
Another reviewer mentioned wanting to know Elizabethan pronunciations. I don't know what Elizabethan pronunciations have to do with modern speakers of Shakespeare. It seems that it is only something that a scholar might find interesting. As an actor, I need help on how I should be pronouncing these words today and this book has answered all my questions.
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