Note: "Kökeritz's book[, Shakespeare's Pronunciation, 1953,] has long been popular with students of English literature, but some of it rests on rather shaky evidence, and it should be treated with great caution."
—Charles
Barber, Early Modern English
(1997, Edinburgh UP)
A more recent and reliable book than Kokeritz' is Fausto Cercignani's Shakespeare's
Works and Elizabethan Pronunciation (1981). Cercignani levels some criticism
against certain of Kokeritz' methods and conclusions, which I think are largely
justified.
—Dave Kathman
djk1@ix.netcom.com
