Early English Aloud and Alive: The Language of Beowulf, Chaucer, and Shakespeare

Author / Editor
Gallagher, Joseph E.

Title
Early English Aloud and Alive: The Language of Beowulf, Chaucer, and Shakespeare

Published
Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities, 1999.

Physical Description
Videorecording; 29 min.

Series
Films for the Humanities, no. 8653.

Description
On location in England, Gallagher recites passages from Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, comparing and contrasting their phonologies, morphologies, and vocabularies. The emphasis is on "Beowulf," but includes a passage from FranT (5.761-70), recited in the cloister of Canterbury Cathedral.
Produced and directed by Marcus Rogers; first produced at Simon Fraser University, Caritas Productions, 1991.

Contributor
Rogers, Marcus, dir.

Chaucer Subjects
Recordings and Films
Language and Word Studies
Franklin and His Tale