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Jan 29, 2010, 10:34AM

Reconstructing Shakespeare

How Brutus' famous speech from Julius Caesar may have sounded to its original audience.

1. I have been working through the chief and most currently valued examples of scholarly work on Elizabethan pronunciation. As I read the subject, there aren't many useful books on the subject, and good audio-cassettes, the most obvious form of record for such an aural matter, are non-existent. I attach, with a few comments about their varying contexts, authors' own voices, and values, a list of the most scholarly books.

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