LibGuides: Finding Plays for Beginning and Intermediate Acting: Accents & Dialects

Media Collections at Alkek

If you are looking for audio recordings or videos of plays, you can search the Library Catalog by the play title, by author, or by main actor.

Media content (videos, cassettes, DVDs, and CDs) at Alkek can be found on the 3rd floor.

Checking out Media

You might also consider checking out films from Alkek's media collection to listen to various dialects and accents as well.

Search the catalog to see if we have a certain film in our collections.

Loan periods for Media range from 1 week to 2 weeks.

Accents & Dialects

Check the Library Catalog for more Accent and Dialect tapes and books.

You might also want to search by Region or by Dialect name.

Here is a list of selected Accent and Dialect resources in different formats.

Acting with an Accent
Audiocassette tape. Located at the ARC. Can be requested to be delivered for pick up.
The dialect handbook : learning, researching, and performing a dialect role
A book featuring The Dialect Directory (p. 103-164) -- A listing of hundreds of feature films, TV series, audiotapes, books, CDs, and other resources for researching 30 different cultures and dialects.
Dialect monologues / Karshner, Stern.
A sound recording of various monologues in different dialects.

Speech Accent Archive This link opens in a new window
Contains audio speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds, including native and non-native speakers of English.