A Muse of fire
Description
As the landscape of the New World awakened England's imagination, so did a new landscape of words-in the English of William Shakespeare and the King James Bible. This classic PBS program describes the spread of English to North America and explains how Shakespeare's prodigious vocabulary filled the language with startling new words, phrases, and constructions. Recording strong echoes of Shakespearean English in the little villages lying near Stratford, the program also describes the making of the Authorized Version of the Bible-the only great work of literature ever created by committee-and examines the linguistic dissent perpetrated by the Puritans.
Runtime
59 min
Series
Subjects
- Social structure (572)
- Culture (254)
- English language (787)
- Language and languages (158)
- Linguistics (60)
- Literature (399)
- Communication (1217)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2007], c1986
Database
Films on Demand
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