Why people enjoy hearing Shakespeare in its Original Pronunciation
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- David Crystal, author of The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespeare Pronunciation talks about Original Pronunciation (OP) performances and their power to connect with audiences today, very few of whom speak ‘Received pronunciation’. He gives examples from the USA, Canada, Lancashire, Ireland, and London. global.oup.com...
David Crystal is known throughout the world as a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster on language. His writings on Shakespeare include Pronouncing Shakespeare, Think on my Words: Exploring Shakespeare’s Language, and with Ben Crystal Shakespeare’s Words, The Shakespeare Miscellany, and the Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary.
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Some people belive that shakespearian England Spoke like Hillbillys
@AZrants Probably not. The Hillbilly accent is because of the Irish and Scots that settle there.
This OP business I've seen in these videos makes me think that Shakespeare would have been considered strictly low-brow entertainment for the masses, since that was in fact his audience. And, it makes me think that he would have been completely dismissed if not held in contempt by the powers that be of the period. More Saturday afternoon at the multiplex than bloodless high-brow theaaataaa. Probably this would also explain, to some degree, the ridiculous authorship conspiracy theories. As the work came unmoored from time and place and was recognized for what it was, disputed authorship would be an easy way to erase its origins as popcorn theatre for the commoner written by a commoner. But, I don't know... Not an english major by any means, just speculating... Perhaps one of these Oxforderian scholars can do a video on this and break it all down. Would be interested to see what they have to say.
The point of Shakespeare is that he was putting into practice the idea that high-brow thinking plays were NOT something for upper-class twits, but for EVERYBODY. It was written by a commoner, but a commoner who went to school and stole from the Latin classics, which is Christopher Marlowe.
He performed for rich too. He was quite upper class. It's that accents were different in his time.
He sounds more American to my ears than posh english
Some English do sound very American. Especially the people from Hampshire. A lot of English accents are becoming Americanize. Look at Paul Joseph Watson, he has a nice British American accent.