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The Author
Dale Coye teaches at the College of New Jersey (formerly Trenton State College) and is the author of Pronouncing Shakespeare’s Words: A Guide from A to
Zounds (Greenwood, 1998). His special fields are the
history of the English language, pronunciation, dialectology, and
theatre. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton in Linguistics and
was the director of the Princeton Summer Theatre from 1979-1980. He
studied in Paris and Vienna and has directed many plays at Princeton
University as well as at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. He has
also written articles on American dialects for academic journals, two plays
and other theatre pieces. From 1986-1996 he was a researcher at
the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in Princeton, one of
the nation’s leading think-tanks devoted to improving schools and
colleges. While there he was instrumental in organizing and
administrating the national Basic School Project, which includes an
innovative elementary school curriculum.
His two-act play The Shepherd Proposal
or The Salvation of the State of New Jersey in a Time of Economic,
Environmental and Metaphysical Uncertainty was performed in a workshop
production at the College of New Jersey, May 2002. The play is a black comedy
that demands we pay attention to some of the crises tearing our society
apart: environmental degradation, drugs, apathy, globalization...it's all
here in a Kafka-esque (or Python-esque) dramatization, especially written for
college students. For information, write the author dalecoye@aol.com
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