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'Crystal presents a clear and lively story that will engage and carry along even the most phonetically uninformed reader … a thoughtful and inspiring model.' Around the Globe
'… an engaging, unbuttoned style … at its core is a masterclass in the rudiments of OP, a potentially dull topic that Crystal makes absorbing.' Times Higher Education Supplement
'… an engaging, unbuttoned style … at its core is a masterclass in the rudiments of OP, a potentially dull topic that Crystal makes absorbing.' Times Higher Education Supplement
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How did Shakespeare's plays sound when they were originally performed? How can we know, and could the original pronunciation ever be recreated? For three days in June 2004 Shakespeare's Globe presented their production of Romeo and Juliet in original, Shakespearian pronunciation. In an unusual blend of autobiography, narrative, and academic content, reflecting the unique nature of the experience, David Crystal recounts the first attempt in over 50 years to mount a full-length Shakespeare play in original pronunciation. Crystal begins by discussing the Globe theatre's approach to 'original practices', which has dealt with all aspects of Elizabethan stagecraft - except pronunciation. A large section is devoted to the nature of the Early Modern English sound system. There are reports of how the actors coped with the task of learning the pronunciation, how it affected their performances and how the audiences reacted.
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This review is from: Pronouncing Shakespeare: The Globe Experiment (Hardcover)
This is an excellent account of the Globe's project to perform Shakespeare in 'authentic' accents of the period. Crystal gives fascinating insights into how he researched what Elizabethan pronunciation might have been, and writes entertainingly and informatively about the experience of working with the actors and the plays.
Crystal writes well, and if the results of the 'Original Pronunciation' performances at the Globe are any guide, his 'Elizabethan' accents are surprisingly easy to understand.
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An infecting experiment!,
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David Crystal is an inborn story-teller. In this wonderful book he presents his experiment with the Globe in such a beautiful manner that you become as excited as the author was then!
It is a remarkable account of how a group of actors at Shakespeare's Globe decided to devote three days to experimenting Romeo & Juliet in Elizabethan pronunciation, with Professor David Crystal having an essential role as the author of the transcriptions of their lines in OP. It is so exciting to read the opinions of the actors involved about their feeling about the whole experiment, the tangible change the original pronunciation caused in their acting on the whole - their behaviour on stage, their perception of the characters they embodied. David Crystal gives an accurate account of the way certain vowels and consonants were different, about the rhythm and melody, contractions and elisions in Shakespearean pronunciation. You cannot help marvelling at and being excited by every page in the book. This is a fascinating story which is so infecting that you wish you had been there and given at least the lines of Balthazar!
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Crystal is as clear a guide as it is possible to have,
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Without doubt, when it comes to the English Language, there are few better guides than David Crystal; I heard him first giving a visiting speaker lecture at St Anne's College, Oxford many years ago and he was very entertaining as well as informative, everything one could want from a visiting lecturer.This book is an informative, entertaining, erudite and fascinating investigation into what Shakespeare's language might have sounded like as performed when he lived. I like Abjad's comment from Paris: " ... its knowledge will stay with you like a perfume". The whole enterprise is intriguing, as much of the research into Shakespeare is (and all those who are said to have written his plays). From one perspective, it may seem a slightly pointless exercise because we'll never really know and it does not matter a great deal anyway; from another perspective, it is looking into the fundamental element of one of the world's greatest literary geniuses - his language. The sound of Shakespeare's language is one of the missing elements. We (probably) have all of the words in various editions but the sound is lost. Forever? I have looked for a dvd, cd or some other record of this experiment but have been unable to find one, which is a pity as it would have been the ideal companion ot this book.
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