David Crystal is known throughout the world as a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster on language. His work on the language of Shakespeare includes Pronouncing Shakespeare, Think on My Words: Exploring Shakespeare's Languages, and, with Ben Crystal, Shakespeare's Words, The Shakespeare Miscellany, and The Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary.

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"Crystal presents his robust, careful research, drawing together insights from linguistics, Shakespearean studies, and theatre practice, with his typical clarity and user-friendly style, repaying both targeted queries and meandering browsing... [The book] provides insights for a wide range of users beyond theatre makers, including scholars, teachers, and students, the wider early modern heritage industry, as well as linguists with an interest in phonology, sociolinguistics, or stylistics." --Sarah Grandage, Early Theatre

"Crystal's remarkable output of English-language linguistic publications include 'Think on my Words'...Crystal states that this work is designed... "to help those who wish to present Shakespeare using Early Modern English pronunciation," it also has application in textual analysis and criticism. Based on over 20,000 words from the First Folio, entries can include a standardized spelling (for arrangement), variant spellings, inflected forms, frequency data, clarifying definitions, non-Folio text forms, International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) pronunciation, rhyming entries with canon location, and some pun references. The excellent introductory essay on the process of determining the original language is important in learning to decipher the entries. Most useful is an online sound set featuring all entries...Crystal's unique dictionary joins his other worthy Shakespearean language works to form an essential collection covering the language of the Bard." --R.A. Aken, CHOICE

"In view of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death this year, The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation has arguably been the most anticipated book of 2016 for Shakespeare lovers, readers, actors, directors, and scholars." --Huffington Post