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Word: proserpina (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...text, which is exceedingly difficult to assimilate, being highly elliptical, syntactically intricate, and stuffed with multiple meanings, is somewhat abridged here, so that the entire show has a running time of only 170 minutes. For some reason Kahn has adopted hybrid pronunciations for the names Leontes, Paulina and Proserpina; and I wonder whether the Clown's misaccentuation of "lamentably" is intentional. why too must everyone accent occurs some 60 times in Shakespeare, and it almost invariably requires first-syllable stress...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Leontes Damages The Winter's Tale' | 8/5/1975 | See Source »

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