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Top 5 viewed posts….and 1 is a guest post. lol.

13 April 2013

1. POEMS ABOUT Shakespeare 6435 reads. Always been the leader of the pack this one. 2. POEMS ABOUT Language… 4045 reads. One of my favourite sections. 3. A PAPER – A Prosodic...

Women of Will: that would be scanned…

24 March 2013

We all know women, and particularly the roles Will wrote for women, were never acted by women on the Elizabethan stage. But structurally men or boys rather took the women's roles. (Cross-dressing...

Numbers and Accens

25 February 2013

Rhetoricians identify two ways in which passions are represented in recitation: through NOMBRE or the rates of speech and ACCENS or tones of voice.