> On Sep 16, 2018, at 12:14 PM, Matthew Daillie <[email protected]> > wrote: > > You might be interested in this video which summarizes some of the research > carried out by David Crystal et al on English pronunciation at the time of > Shakespeare (and Dowland) and the productions of his plays at the Globe > theatre using 'Original Pronunciation': > https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s
Indeed, I was interested enough to have seen it already. It explores the differences between modern Received Pronunciation that London stage actors traditionally use, and the London stage accent of 400 years ago, which is in many ways similar to the way English sounds in Bristol now. Of course, it’s all a little peripheral to the question of whether Shakespeare might have spelled differently in a letter to his wife in Stratford than he would in a play to be spoken in London, or whether anyone would have cared. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
