{"id":6113,"date":"2010-10-30T10:18:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T14:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6113"},"modified":"2010-10-30T10:21:09","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T14:21:09","slug":"shakespeare-in-the-original-pronunciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/10\/30\/shakespeare-in-the-original-pronunciation\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare in the original pronunciation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><object width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dWe1b9mjjkM&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t sound much like your traditional Shakespeare production <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news\/2010-10-professor-audience-shakespeare-words-accent.html\" target=\"_blank\">does it<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Like an archeologist reconstructing the fossilized skeleton of an ancient species, a University of Kansas theatre professor has pieced together the bones of a form of English that has never been heard in North America in modern times &mdash; the original pronunciation of Shakespeare.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the work of Paul Meier, audiences can get a sense of what it might have been like to eavesdrop on opening night of \u201cHamlet\u201d or \u201cRomeo and Juliet\u201d at the Globe Theater in London or to listen in on a shipboard conversation on the Mayflower as it approaches the shores of the New World.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did English sound like back then?\u201d Meier said. \u201cWas it posh or down to earth? Was it anything like today\u2019s British or American English? Would we understand it?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ablogabouthistory.com\/2010\/10\/29\/shakespeare-in-the-original-pronunciation\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=twitter&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ablogabouthistory+%28A+Blog+About+History%29\" target=\"_blank\">A Blog About History<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t sound much like your traditional Shakespeare production does it? Like an archeologist reconstructing the fossilized skeleton of an ancient species, a University of Kansas theatre professor has pieced together the bones of a form of English that has never been heard in North America in modern times &mdash; the original pronunciation of Shakespeare. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,28],"tags":[400,532,381],"class_list":["post-6113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-media","tag-language","tag-shakespeare","tag-theatre"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1AB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6115,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113\/revisions\/6115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}