Sunday, 27 April 2014

[Video] Shakespeare: Original pronunciation

This is absolutely fascinating (let's all e-hug my brother, who sent me the link!). Enjoy!


Apart from the fact that that's really the kind of stuff that makes me purr with happiness (my favourite memory of my time in college was a class at 8:30 in the morning - History of Old English - where I was making puns in Latin with our teacher... I am that kind of weird), I really loved this: 'There's something about working our way back to Shakespeare, rather than dragging him into the twenty-first century.'

3 comments:

Ruan Peat said...

so pretty, I love the lilt, and they sound like the west country of my childhood!
I love the old language of Shakespeare and some of the doric from Scotland with the Filum! which is common up here. and my fave up here is Jai, for the letter J (which I know as Jay) :-)
I like the speed of Shakespeare in the OP, very very homely for me....
Thank you for sharing that :-)

Lanor said...

I'm glad that you liked it!
I was practically purring after Mike sent me the link. ;)
I told my kids to watch it, but will they??? (by the way, I didn't have to bite my colleague, but that was only thanks to a technicality *sigh*).

'Sleep tight!' ;)

Anonymous said...

*hugs* Sis,

I'm so thrilled you like this. I really like it, too. I've watched it three times now. :-)