"Hermia, sleep thou there / and never mayst thou come Lysander near!"

[larryhammer]

The drama department of the University of Kansas is putting on a original pronunciation production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. As in, Irish Elizabethan vowels and all. Video of a three minute sample in the link. And, lo! -- the poetry rhymes! exactly! -- in the original pronunciation.

WANT. TO. GO.

---L.

Comments

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

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I'd better find a place to save that link. For several job applications, I need to pretend I'm qualified to teach History of the English Language...

[larryhammer]

I was wondering if that'd make your ears, er, prick up.

---L.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_twilight_/]

Link stolen!

[stevendj.livejournal.com]

So nifty. I was surprised at how comprehensible it was; somehow, I'd assumed that there had been greater drift.

[larryhammer]

Most of phases of the Great Vowel Shift were done by then.

---L.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Ooooh! Fabulous.

Nine