"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.

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[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Ooooh! Fabulous.

Nine