larryhammer: drawing of a wildhaired figure dancing, label: "La!" (La!)
Larry Hammer ([personal profile] larryhammer) wrote2010-10-28 07:39 am
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"Hermia, sleep thou there / and never mayst thou come Lysander near!"

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.
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