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• oatscoop@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s hilarious how Shakespeare’s are seen today considering what they were originally. They’re full of dirty jokes and the accent they were originally performed in sounded nothing like the Received Pronunciation used today.

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  • constantokra@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Do you happen to know where to find whole plays done in the original pronunciation? I’m not exactly bad at finding things on the internet, but I can’t find any of Shakespeare’s plays in their original pronunciation, or more than a tiny bit of Chaucer’s Canterbury tales in spoken middle English.

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    • oatscoop@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I found this performance of As you like it on the wikipedia article

      The quality of the video isn’t great.

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      • constantokra@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Thanks! I’d not found the 12th night or the sonnet before. I look forward to sitting down and watching it.

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• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’d never heard him tell a joke before.

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