Shakespeare’s English

[ksmith]

It’s 10 and a half minutes, which is longish for a You Tube clip. But it’s a fascinating discussion of Shakespeare’s plays being performed in the English of the time, aka Original Pronunciation. Rhymes that didn’t in Modern English rhyme once more. Puns pop out where before, the modern pronunciations obscured them.

Thanks to Jeffrey Richard over at Facebook for the link.

Mirrored from Kristine Smith.

Comments

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

David Crystal! *geeks*

Thanks; that was great. :)

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed it. Glad you liked it, too.

[e-moon60.livejournal.com]

Huh. I wrote a comment to this last night which seems to have disappeared completely. Which was that Hagrid, in the HP movies, spoke an OP accent, especially that /r/.

[afraclose.livejournal.com]

Very fascinating. Thanks for posting it.

Plus, I love the younger guy's "lower register." Rrrrr...