Shakespearean Theatre

© Jem Bloomfield

Language in King Lear

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1.   Sep 12, 2006 8:23 PM

» thes1 - Accent in Shakespeare


I think it is completely wrong that so many people think that the modern day British Dialect is the touchstone to how an actor should sound when performing Shakespeare's plays. Because the English dialect spoken when Shakespeare was writing sounded nothing like todays Brittish "Received Pronunciation". As long as the actors speak with a clarity that is "trippingly on the tongue" and ride the metre that is given to them, an everyday general Canadian dialect is fine.

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