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What did an “alarum” sound like?

Graduate Intern, Luke Wilding, discusses the term alarum, and suggests what it might have actually sounded like… The term alarum occurs 89 times in Shakespeare’s first folio. The Oxford English Dictionary states that an alarum is “used as a call … Continue reading

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A methodological journey…

Principal Investigator, Jonathan Culpeper, shares his thoughts on why the methods used on the Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare’s Language project are quite so unique… Just before Christmas 2015, the AHRC announced that it was going to fund the £1 million Encyclopaedia … Continue reading

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