With these fundamental lectures on speech eurythmy - given just months after his course entitled 'Eurythmy as Visible Singing' - Rudolf Steiner completed the foundations of the new art of movement. In connecting to the centuries-old esoteric and exoteric Western traditions of 'the Word' - the creative power in the sounds of the divine-human alphabet - he gave it concrete form and expression in the performing arts, education and therapy. Although aimed primarily at the professional concerns of eurythmists who perform, teach or work as therapists, the lectures offer a wealth of suggestions and insights to anyone interested in the arts. For this new edition - freshly translated by Matthew Barton and introduced by Coralee Frederickson - the original shorthand transcripts have been compared exhaustively with typed records and the notes of course participants. These notes included numerous sketches of movements, gestures and choreographies, many of which have been reproduced here to