Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Episode 175: The English of Romeo and Juliet
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Episode 175: The English of Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is one of William Shakespeare’s most popular plays and one of the most popular plays ever written. In this episode, we examine the language of the play to see how it reflects the English of Elizabethan England, and we identify evidence of emerging pronunciations that would become common over the following centuries.
TRANSCRIPT: EPISODE 175
View all episodes
By Kevin Stroud
4.8
63626,362 ratings
Romeo and Juliet is one of William Shakespeare’s most popular plays and one of the most popular plays ever written. In this episode, we examine the language of the play to see how it reflects the English of Elizabethan England, and we identify evidence of emerging pronunciations that would become common over the following centuries.
TRANSCRIPT: EPISODE 175
More shows like The History of English Podcast
View all
In Our Time
5,481 Listeners
History Extra podcast
3,198 Listeners
Revolutions
13,475 Listeners
The British History Podcast
5,393 Listeners
The History of Byzantium
4,270 Listeners
In Our Time: History
1,885 Listeners
The History of England
4,395 Listeners
The Ancient World
1,835 Listeners
Literature and History
1,428 Listeners
Tides of History
6,319 Listeners
History of the World podcast
903 Listeners
The Ancients
3,272 Listeners
Gone Medieval
1,848 Listeners
Lexicon Valley
570 Listeners
Anglo-Saxon England
219 Listeners