Inaugural Lecture of the Kwan Laurel Endowment for the Humanities: What's New in Shakespeare's Language Study?
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02 Apr 2022 05:00 pm
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02 Apr 2022 07:00 pm
Inaugural Lecture of the Kwan Laurel Endowment for the Humanities
on April 2, at 5 pm (Manila time), 10 am (UK time)
What's New in Shakespeare's Language Study?
David Crystal will talk about three areas: the debunking of long-standing myths about the size of Shakespeare's vocabulary and his lexical inventiveness, the new horizons opened up by online sites such as shakespeareswords.com, and the recent applications of linguistic research in the theatre, especially using original pronunciation.
About The Speaker
David Crystal specialized in English Language Studies at the University College London and is the author and editor of over a hundred books. Among these are The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, We Are Not Amused: Victorian Views on Pronunciation, and Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language, and in collaboration with his son, Shakespearean actor Ben Crystal, Shakespeare's Words, The Shakespeare Miscellany, and the Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary. He was Master of Original Pronunciation at Shakespeare's Globe and worked in original pronunciation productions of Romeo and Juliet and Troilus and Cressida.
Pre-registration is required. Please visit: bit.ly/SOHShakespeare
Zoom link to be given upon registration.