William's Wherefore

William''s Wherefore is, at its heart, a how-to book: it explains how to turn Shakespeare''s printed words into clear, understandable speech and lays out an easily accessible and practical approach to deciphering both Shakespeare''s Early Modern English and the arcane poetic structures that dominate his writing. The book shows the reader how to untangle Shakespeare''s complex rhetoric and grammar and it gives the reader a process for how to distinguish between the various verse-forms Shakespeare...