Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. David Crystal: In May 2004 a company of actors was sitting in a rehearsal room at Shakespeare's Globe ...
Like any other language, English has evolved in the past 400 years. Not just by gaining and losing words, but with pronunciation too. Thomas Edison developed the first sound recording device in 1877, ...
"To sum up: your father, whom you love, dies, you are his heir, you come back to find that hardly was the corpse cold before his young brother popped on to his throne and into his sheets, thereby ...
The Globe Theatre in London will soon become the first professional theater company in centuries to stage an entire run of a Shakespeare play in the original pronunciation. The actors in Troilus and ...
Kody Grassett and Chelsea Evered in Underlings Theatre Company's production of "Romeo and Juliet." (Jeremy D. Goodwin for WBUR) Think of the most careful, precise, upper-class-sounding British accent ...
Last week, an intriguing video on Shakespeare became a mini viral hit. Emailed and forwarded and tweeted around was a recording of father and son, linguist David Crystal and actor Ben Crystal, reading ...
The Baltimore Shakespeare Factory’s new performance of “The Merchant of Venice” is actually quite old, as it revives the Elizabethan pronunciation of the text, speaking the Bard’s words with ...
Kody Grassett and Chelsea Evered in Underlings Theatre Company's production of "Romeo and Juliet." (Jeremy D. Goodwin for WBUR) Think of the most careful, precise, upper-class-sounding British accent ...
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