tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7855164859139529987.post8618912442022370461..comments2022-03-30T01:21:56.188-04:00Comments on The Journals of Ian Thal: On Reading the First FolioIan Thalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15348768867561450314noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7855164859139529987.post-40296389589718348282008-11-14T11:39:00.000-05:002008-11-14T11:39:00.000-05:00From The Bard BlogIan Thal wrote:"...the experienc...From The Bard Blog<BR/>Ian Thal wrote:"...the experience of rehearsing directly from the First Folio and what that revealed about the poetry of the play."<BR/>____________________________________________________________<BR/>Willshill replied:<BR/>I find it both interesting and refreshing that a Poet is less interested in the rules of Poesy,the ostensible justification for 'emending'(a less Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7855164859139529987.post-14935155324011697452008-09-05T11:40:00.000-04:002008-09-05T11:40:00.000-04:00Duane Moran, of Shakespeare Geek, wrote about Davi...Duane Moran, of <A HREF="http://blog.shakespearegeek.com" REL="nofollow">Shakespeare Geek</A>, wrote about David Crystal's <A HREF="http://www.pronouncingshakespeare.com/" REL="nofollow">Pronouncing Shakpeare</A> website, which is a companion to the book of the same name. Duane's sense (one that I shared, but largely refrained from stating in public) was that Original Pronunciation sounds <A Ian Thalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15348768867561450314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7855164859139529987.post-29791135621392560592007-07-25T12:10:00.000-04:002007-07-25T12:10:00.000-04:00I would not know, rednose. My guess is that it mi...I would not know, rednose. My guess is that it might be an incongruity between naturalistic acting and stylized language. The cast of this company has a wide variety of backgrounds. Some come from the world of naturalism, others from musical theatre, while I come from the worlds of mime and poetry. I will keep my eyes open for the phenomenon you describe.Ian Thalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15348768867561450314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7855164859139529987.post-64228838149527558542007-07-25T11:56:00.000-04:002007-07-25T11:56:00.000-04:00What interests me at the moment is the affect that...What interests me at the moment is the affect that acting shakespeare seems to have some people. <BR/>Last night I was watching Much Ado About Nothing and some pieces of text seemed to make some of the actors move in a certain jerky fashion. I realized that this is something that I've witnessed before when watching Shakespeare.<BR/>Does anyone know why this happens?Douglas Easonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03508104247257657559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7855164859139529987.post-83841238606250307822007-07-24T14:52:00.000-04:002007-07-24T14:52:00.000-04:00the "href" tag seems not to be working properly ag...the "href" tag seems not to be working properly again. I had the same problem a few months ago. Sorry for the poor formating of the above comment.Ian Thalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15348768867561450314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7855164859139529987.post-15192425190477688382007-07-24T14:45:00.000-04:002007-07-24T14:45:00.000-04:00Katja,That's precisely why I found it such a wonde...Katja,<BR/><BR/>That's precisely why I found it such a wonderful bit of serrendipity to come upon <A HREF="http://floatykatja.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/language-barriers" REL="nofollow"/> about the same time as I wrote this particular piece.<BR/><BR/>I suspect noone spoke RP in Shakespeare's time and furthermore, I suspect that as with today, there was a repetoire of standard accents used on Ian Thalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15348768867561450314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7855164859139529987.post-2038161412778752782007-07-24T14:18:00.000-04:002007-07-24T14:18:00.000-04:00Interesting stuff, Ian! It's possibly also worth t...Interesting stuff, Ian! It's possibly also worth thinking about the fact that shakespeare was a midlands any and so would have been unlikely to have had a standard RP accent anyway. I don't pretend to know much about archaic pronunciations, but as language quite clearly evolves, it seems daft that we should attempt to read a 400 year old text in a modern accent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com