TY - JOUR
AU - Foakes, R. A.
AB - Reviews of Books Earl y English and Norse Studies Pre- Popular books on language continue to appear, and Michael Girsdansky's has much to sente d to Hugh Smith in Honour of his commend it. I t is interestingly and enthusias- Sixtiet h Birthday. Edited by ARTHUR tically written, and only occasionally do the BROW N and PETER FOOTE. Methuen. purple passages become merely flowery an d the Th e Adventure of Language. By MICHAEL humour seem forced. The author deals lucidly GIRSDANSKY. Allen & Unwin. 255. with many aspects of the subject: the origin Learnin g in Language and Literature. By of language, the evolution of the alphabet, A. R. MACKINNON and NORTHROP FRYE. the distinctive characteristics of a wide range Oxford (Harvard U.P.). 16s. of languages, semantic change, phonetics, communication theory, the Markov chain, Th e first of these volumes pays tribute to the and Zipf's law, to name only a few of them . He work of Professor A. H. Smith, whose varied is perhaps weakest on the purely factual parts, interests in the fields of medieval language and but he does succeed in stimulating thought literature, place-names, and Scandinavian about language and in showing something of 
TI - Music in Shakespearean Tragedy; William Shakespeare. A Biography; Shakespeare Survey, 16
JF - English
DO - 10.1093/english/15.85.22-b
DA - 1964-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/music-in-shakespearean-tragedy-william-shakespeare-a-biography-I2HAf86d0u
SP - 22-b
EP - 23
VL - 15
IS - 85
DP - DeepDyve
ER -