The "diabolus in musica" website has some information on Elizabethan English and it's "owner", Paul Baker, knows lots more if anyone is interested.
http://www.diabolus.org/ Nick -----Original Message----- From: Patrick H [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 January 2006 15:46 To: Lute List Subject: [LUTE] Re: Surviving in Eliz. England. Didn't the Globe in London do play recently, based on what we think "real" Elizabethan dialects were? Patrick guy_and_liz Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To get back to the point I was trying to make, BBC English is more or less what your typical modern Shakespearean actor is using (not counting the various attempts to "modernize" his plays). From what I understood from the lecture, it's not likely to be mistaken for *any* Elizabethan dialect. Guy --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars. Add photos, events, holidays, whatever. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
